Last checked at 21 Nov 2013 07:00
21 November 2013
Frontier Developments plc
Coaster Crazy Deluxe for Wii UTM and Apple iOS released today
Cambridge, UK. Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV, "Frontier," the "Company"), a leading developer of video games with studios in Cambridge, UK and Halifax, Canada, announces that its Coaster Crazy Deluxe game will be released today on both the Wii UTM on Nintendo® eShop, and on Apple iOS devices.
These releases substantiate the capabilities of Frontier's proprietary Cobra software technology and share the same server back end. The Cobra platform supports the multi-core CPU and GPU architectures of PC, console, tablet and smartphone with a high performance system that is applicable across a wide range of game genres.
The move represents a further step in Frontier's progress from being primarily a developer of video games for major external publishers into a business that develops and licenses technology to support games for major external publishers, other developers and Frontier's own self-published game titles.
David Braben, CEO of Frontier Developments, said:
"The releases of Coaster Crazy Deluxe on both Nintendo Wii U and Apple iOS platforms share the same server back end. This simultaneous release is a strong demonstration of the rapidly evolving cloud-based elements of Frontier's cross-platform Cobra technology."
Enquiries:
Frontier Developments | +44 (0)1223 394 300 |
David Braben, CEO | |
David Walsh, COO Neil Armstrong, CFO | |
Canaccord Genuity | +44 (0) 207 523 8000 |
Simon Bridges/Cameron Duncan | |
College Hill | +44 (0) 20 7457 2020 |
Kay Larsen/Adrian Duffield |
About Frontier Developments
Frontier Developments plc is a leading independent game developer founded in 1994 by David Braben, co-author of the seminal 'Elite' game. Based in Cambridge, UK and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Frontier uses its proprietary 'Cobra' game development technology to create innovative games across videogame consoles, computers, smartphones and tablets.
Previous titles Frontier has created on include RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Thrillville, LostWinds, Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures. On 4 January 2013 Frontier raised £1.7 million via Kickstarter, the crowd funding website, and its own site to develop Elite: Dangerous. The studio is also working on a number of other titles, including Zoo Tycoon as a launch title for Microsoft's new Xbox One console.
www.frontier.co.uk
About Cobra
Frontier's Cobra software technology has been developed and evolved since 1988. Initially conceived as a solution for the problem of easily porting the same game across different target hardware devices, Cobra today supports multi-core CPU and GPU architectures of PC, console, tablet and smartphone with a modular, high performance system offering of state of the art efficiency and visual fidelity that is applicable across a wide range of game genres.
Cobra incorporates a framework which enables rapid development of powerful game creation tools, which offer the ability to view, tweak and review changes to content (e.g. animations, audio, 3D models etc.) on target platforms in a live game session running on that platform, without the intervention of a programmer.