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Frontier Developments: History, Technology, Science & Companies

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. Frontier develops the construction management simulators Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo, and has produced several games in David Braben's Elite series, including Elite Dangerous. The company…

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Frontier Developments topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Technology, Science and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Frontier Developments.

Related topics
70
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
74
Extracted relationships
42
Concept neighborhoods
28
Bridge connections
74

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 40 topics
Overview · 12 topics
Publishing · 12 topics
Technology · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
28 January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01-28)
Industry
Video games
Headquarters
Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, England
Formerly
Frontier Developments Limited (1994–2013)
Founder
David Braben
ISIN
GB00BBT32N39

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Publishing

Technology

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Frontier Developments connects Entity context

The extracted context around Frontier Developments shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Frontier Developments → Acornsoft, Amiga CD32, Between, Braben, Codemasters, David Braben, Elite, Elite II, First Encounters, Frontier, January, The Outsider, Washington DC Another extracted example is Frontier Developments → Elite Dangerous, F1 Manager, Jurassic World Evolution, LostWinds, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, RollerCoaster Tycoon. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Frontier Developments

Top relations

related to history · 13
Frontier Developments → Acornsoft, Amiga CD32, Between, Braben, Codemasters, David Braben, Elite, Elite II, First Encounters, Frontier, January, The Outsider, Washington DC
Products · 7
Frontier Developments → Elite Dangerous, F1 Manager, Jurassic World Evolution, LostWinds, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, RollerCoaster Tycoon
Key people · 3
Frontier Developments → David Braben (President & Founder), Ilse Howling (Non-Executive Director and Chairman), Jo Cooke (CEO)
Formerly · 1
Frontier Developments → Frontier Developments Limited (1994–2013)
Founded · 1
Frontier Developments → 28 January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01-28)
Founder · 1
Frontier Developments → David Braben
Headquarters · 1
Frontier Developments → Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, England
Industry · 1
Frontier Developments → Video games
ISIN · 1
Frontier Developments → GB00BBT32N39
Net income · 1
Frontier Developments → £16.4 million (2025)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

frontier games elite announced game company released would 2022 david dangerous planet coaster label publishing developed published development foundry tycoon

Frontier Developments relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 42 structured relationships around Frontier Developments. Examples in this analysis include Frontier Developments → Formerly → Frontier Developments Limited (1994–2013) and Frontier Developments → Founded → 28 January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01-28). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Frontier DevelopmentsFormerlyFrontier Developments Limited (1994–2013)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsFounded28 January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01-28)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsFounderDavid Braben1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsHeadquartersCambridge Science Park, Cambridge, England1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsIndustryVideo games1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsISINGB00BBT32N391.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsKey peopleJo Cooke (CEO)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsKey peopleDavid Braben (President & Founder)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsKey peopleIlse Howling (Non-Executive Director and Chairman)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsNet income£16.4 million (2025)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsNumber of employees696 (2025)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsOperating income£12.7 million (2025)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsElite Dangerous1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsRollerCoaster Tycoon1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsLostWinds1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsPlanet Coaster1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsJurassic World Evolution1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsPlanet Zoo1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsProductsF1 Manager1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsRevenue£90.6 million (2025)1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsSubsidiariesComplex Games1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsTraded asAIM: FDEV1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsTypePublic limited company1.00infobox
Frontier DevelopmentsWebsitewww.frontier.co.uk1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Frontier Developments bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Announced, Video and Games. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Frontier Developments
    • Announced
    • Video
    • Games
    • Park
    • Elite
    • Would
    • Publishing
    • Dangerous
    • Label
    • Game
    • Foundry
    • Published
  • frontier developments
    • Announced
    • David
    • Video
    • Games
    • Braben
    • Park
    • Rollercoaster
    • Elite
    • Tycoon
    • Would
    • Publishing
    • Dangerous
  • video game developer
    • Released
    • Video
    • Park
    • Company
    • Rollercoaster
    • Tycoon
    • Zoo
    • Developed
    • World
    • Would
    • Games
    • December
  • david braben
    • Video
    • Braben
    • David
    • Developments
    • Ceo
    • Park
    • Developed
    • Zoo
    • August
    • Elite
    • Coaster
    • Planet
  • cambridge science park
    • Video
    • Evolution
    • Jurassic
    • World
    • Company
    • Ceo
    • Lostwinds
    • Zoo
    • Management
    • Rollercoaster
    • June
    • One
  • planet coaster
    • Planet
    • Dangerous
    • Elite
    • Video
    • Zoo
    • Evolution
    • Jurassic
    • Management
    • Rollercoaster
    • World
    • Company
    • Tycoon
  • planet zoo
    • Dangerous
    • Published
    • Tycoon
    • Elite
    • Coaster
    • Planet
    • Video
    • Zoo
    • David
    • Evolution
    • Jurassic
    • Rollercoaster
  • elite series
    • Dangerous
    • Planet
    • Company
    • Frontier
    • Series
    • Zoo
    • Evolution
    • Jurassic
    • World
    • Development
    • Published
    • Tycoon

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Frontier Developments, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Frontier Developments with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Frontier DevelopmentsHistory · splits 34 ⟂ 41
Frontier DevelopmentsOverview · splits 62 ⟂ 13
Frontier DevelopmentsPublishing · splits 62 ⟂ 13
Frontier DevelopmentsTechnology · splits 68 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Frontier Developments

Nodes75
Edges74
Triples42
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026667
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Frontier Developments to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Technology, Science & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Frontier Developments · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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