Frontier Developments

Frontier Developments plc is a British video game developer founded by David Braben in January 1994 and based at the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England. The company takes its name from the earliest titles in the Elite series it worked on, a port of Frontier: Elite II and the development of Frontier: First Encounters, and it later developed Elite: Dangerous after a Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012. It also makes construction and management simulators such as Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo, as well as Jurassic World Evolution and the F1 Manager games. Frontier began developing its own in-house game engine, Cobra, in 1988, which is written in C++ with Lua for gameplay features. The company was listed on the AIM segment of the London Stock Exchange in 2013, and in August 2022 Braben stepped down as chief executive to become President and Founder.