NEED TO KNOW
2006
THRILLVILLE
Having developed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 on PC, Frontier Developments brings its unique brand of theme park management over to PlayStation 2 (and follows it up the very next year with Thrillville: Off The Rails). In 2016 Frontier also releases Planet Coaster for PC, but a PS4 release sadly isn’t on the cards.
2009
RASPBERRY PI
Braben helps create the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity that encourages computer science teaching to get more people into coding. The foundation also develops the tiny Raspberry Pi computer, which almost instantly turns into a massive success.
2014
ELITE: DANGEROUS
Kickstarted back in the tail end of 2012, prerelease builds of the fourth Elite game are made available to backers in 2013 but the full game’s launch takes place in December 2014. The massively multiplayer adventure continues to expand with major patches (the Horizons series of expansions adds planetary landings, for instance) and a PS4 version is announced in Dec ‘16.