

You do this by placing signs, speakers, and other educational devices near habitats. In Planet Zoo, guests have a need to learn whilst visiting your zoo, so you should supply a means to educate your guests on the animals and their natural habitat. As with Planet Coaster, keeping your visitors happy and entertained will help you rake in more dollars, and with Planet Zoo there’s another guest gauge you have to keep your eye on: education. This also goes for the guests, who need to be kept happy as they enjoy the sights of your sanctuary. Keeping your animals happy is at the heart of making a successful zoo: making sure the terrain suits their preferred habitat, that they’re getting the right amount of nutrition, and that they’re within a safe social group. If you look at the animal and you think it’s behaving correctly, and it looks like it’s animating correctly, then we’ve done our job.” So it’s been a real challenge but a really good challenge for us. “That’s where the authenticity actually comes from. “When you add those levels of complexity together, that’s where you start seeing natural behaviours that you can’t necessarily predict, but make sense,” Jackson says. The way their stripes pattern, what shade of brown their fur is, if they have a playful nature – all of these traits make each animal unique and give them a sense of authenticity as they crawl about on the screen. Each individual has subtle differences in their appearance and personality that have been directly inherited from their parents. For example, no two animals in Planet Zoo look the same, even within the same species.
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The animation department in Frontier is the biggest area of the studio due to the sheer number of details and attention each animal needs.Įven with the small handful of creatures that Frontier has revealed – hippos, lions, zebras, timber wolves, elephants, peacocks, and grizzly bears – it’s a lot of work and that’s not taking into account all the other wonderful beasties and birdies Frontier is working on behind the scenes.Ĭreating something that looks so natural in both appearance and behaviour from lines of computer code is tougher than it looks, but the devil is in the details. Capturing each animal’s behaviour, how they look, and their personality is a ton of work and requires a lot of knowledge and skill. Jackson sums up the team’s work in a single sentence, but each of those words carry a heavy weight.

If you look at the animal and you think it's behaving correctly, we've done our job Animal welfare is your number one priority and so keeping all the beasties safe and well fed is vital. You’re tasked with designing and building a zoo, complete with animal enclosures and park necessities like cafes, souvenir stores, and food stands. Keeping in line with Frontier’s park game history, Planet Zoo is a hybrid of the studio’s previous games: Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Coaster. Instead, we get Planet Zoo, a management sim that lets you build your own animal park. And no, Chief Beef isn’t getting his own battle royale game. Well, we can all stop scratching our heads, as Frontier has finally announced its new game. Would it stick to the management sim or go in a completely bizarre direction and create a Planet Coaster spin-off using one of the game’s many mascots? It’s been no secret that the studio has an unannounced first-party IP on the way, but little was known about what direction the studio was going with it. We’ve all been wondering what game Frontier has been working on next.
