VD-dev

VD-dev
FormerlyDigital Concept
Velez & Dubail Dev. Team
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded1990
FounderFernando Velez
Guillaume Dubail
Headquarters
France

VD-dev (formerly Digital Concept and Velez & Dubail Dev. Team) is a French video game development studio founded in 1990. The studio was closely affiliated with Atari and Ubisoft, working on games commissioned by them before stepping into independent game development.

History

The studio was founded by the programmer Fernando Velez and the graphic designer Guillaume Dubail, with both working on game design.[1] After abandoning a shoot 'em up concept in 1989, they developed Jim Power in Mutant Planet under the name Digital Concept. They parted ways between 1992 and 1996 (Guillaume Dubail worked on Jim Power's graphics while Fernando Velez programmed Mr. Nutz and Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy). They were credited under their names beginning in 1996, then as Velez & Dubail Dev. Team from 2002 (V-Rally 3) and eventually as VD-dev from 2007.[2] In 2013, they were reunited by Frédéric Zimmer, animation programmer for Ubisoft's Watch Dogs.[3] Fernando Velez died in July 2016; he was 46 years old.[4]

Games developed

Year Title Platform(s) Publisher(s)
1992 Jim Power in Mutant Planet Amiga Loriciel
1996 The Smurfs Travel the World Game Boy, Game Gear, Master System Infogrames Multimedia
Lucky Luke Game Boy
1997 The Smurfs' Nightmare
1998 V-Rally Championship Edition Infogrames Multimedia (Ocean)
The Smurfs' Nightmare Game Boy Color Infogrames
1999 V-Rally Championship Edition
Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch
2000 Le Mans 24 Hours
Wacky Races
Supercross Freestyle
2002 V-Rally 3 Game Boy Advance
2003 Stuntman
2004 Asterix & Obelix XXL Atari
2005 Driver 3
2009 C.O.P. The Recruit Nintendo DS Ubisoft
2011 Driver: Renegade 3D Nintendo 3DS
2015 IRONFALL Invasion Self-published
2018 RISE: Race The Future Microsoft Windows[5][6]
2019 Nintendo Switch

References

  1. ^ Interview de Guillaume Dubail - V-Rally 3, Puissance-Nintendo.
  2. ^ Interview exclusive du studio VD-Dev (IronFall) Archived 2020-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, 18 novembre 2013, Nintendo Difference.
  3. ^ Steeve Mambrucchi, Décès de Fernando Velez (VD-dev), 25 juillet 2016, Gamekult
  4. ^ "Home". vd-dev.com.
  5. ^ @VdDevGames (1 November 2018). "Now available on Steam 😅" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ "Rise: Race the Future on Steam".