Frontier Developments

Frontier Developments plc, founded in January 1994 by David Braben and headquartered in Cambridge, England's Cambridge Science Park, is a British video game developer. Frontier has created numerous games in David Braben's Elite series, including Elite Dangerous, and is best known for its amusement park management simulators under multiple brands owned by other firms, which led to the creation of Frontier's own Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo.

The original Elite games that the firm worked on were Frontier: Elite II (which it ported) and Frontier: First Encounters (which it developed), hence the name. The company went through a reorganization in 2013 and is now a public limited company trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

Both Frontier: Elite II (1993) and Frontier: First Encounters (1994), the successor to Acornsoft's iconic 1984 game Elite, were developed by Frontier Developments. When selling stock to the public in 2013, the firm listed the original Elite as a "Game by Frontier" in their back catalogue, despite David Braben having assigned all rights to the game to the corporation in 2008.

Founded: 28 January 1994
Headquarters: Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, England
Website: https://www.frontier.co.uk/