VD-dev (formerly Velez & Dubail Dev. Team) is a French video game development studio founded in

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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 ''

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'' concept in

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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

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).They signed their names on the games credits from

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, as Velez & Dubail Dev. Team from

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(''V-Rally 3'') and eventually as VD-dev from

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. In

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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
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