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and PC. A

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version was underway but was ultimately cancelled. Programmer Martin Pollas joined in 1996 to work on the PC version of ''Amok''. When Lemon's publisher,

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, went bankrupt the team split up. Søren went to work for Shiny Entertainment (creating the

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games) while Jacob and Martin joined up with the remaining members of

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to form

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( ''Hitman'' series and '' Freedom Fighters'') in 1998. Before Lemon, Søren and Jacob created the

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game '' Banshee'' while working at British game developer/publisher Core Design.

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