Frontier suffers job losses as it announces Coaster Park Tycoon

Frontier Developments has announced Coaster Park Tycoon, a new theme park management sim heading to PC in 2016. However, the new IP’s reveal was joined by confirmation that the developer would be cutting 15 jobs in the UK as it shifts development roles from its Halifax, Nova Scotia branch over to its Cambridge studio.

“With its business emphasis now on two major self-published franchises, Elite: Dangerous and Coaster Park Tycoon, Frontier is re-focusing its development activities in Cambridge where the expertise in these franchises lies,” Frontier said.

“Development roles are being moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Cambridge, and the overall staffing mix will be changed to match the needs of these two projects. 15 content creation roles have been made redundant in Cambridge (from 281 total headcount), while Frontier continues to recruit in areas such as game and technology programming, server and web front end development.”

the developer hopes that the game will “raise that benchmark for ‘Tycoon’ gameplay even further by combining accessible creative features with a sophisticated simulation”.   The game will be self-published by Frontier.

Frontier previously developed titles in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, including RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and expansion packs ‘Soaked’ and ‘Wild’. It is currently putting the finishing touches to Xbox One’s spiritual successor Screamride.