VD-dev (formerly Velez & Dubail Dev. Team) is a French video game development studio founded in
1990
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. The studio worked on several Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for Infogrames and Atari.
History
The studio was founded by the programmer Fernando Velez and the graphic designer Guillaume Dubail, working together in game design.
Interview de Guillaume Dubail - V-Rally 3
', Puissance-Nintendo. After abandoning a ''
shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs
) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of chara ...
'' concept in
1989
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, they developed ''Jim Power in Mutant Planet ''under the name Digital Concept. They parted ways between 1992 and 1996 due to each one's being drafted on military conscription (Guillaume Dubail ''worked on Jim Power''
's graphics after Fernando Velez programmed ''
Mr. Nutz'' and ''
Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues'' for
Game Boy
The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. It was designed by the same ...
).They signed their names on the games credits from
1996
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, as Velez & Dubail Dev. Team from
2002
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(''V-Rally 3'') and eventually as VD-dev from
2007
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. In
2013
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, they were assembled by Frédéric Zimmer, ''animation programmer for '' Ubisoft
''s Watch Dogs.
[Steeve Mambrucchi, ]
Décès de Fernando Velez (VD-dev)
', 25 juillet 2016, /fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamekult Gamekult/ref> Fernando Velez died in July 2016. He was 46 years old
Games developed
References
External links
Official Site
{{Authority control
Video game development companies
Video game companies of France
Video game companies established in 1990
French companies established in 1990