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Four Door Lemon Ltd was a video game company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire and was one of the UK's longest-lived independent video games and middleware developers.[citation needed] Commonly known as "FDL", the company’s name derived from a children’s joke.
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| Company type | Limited |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | April 2005 |
| Defunct | September 2018 |
| Fate | Insolvency |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Simon Barratt Les Ellis |
Number of employees | 15-20 |
| Website | fourdoorlemon.com (archived) |
The company was founded in 2005 by programmers Simon Barratt and Tim Wharton. After developing and launching the Lemon Engine as a middleware program, the team expanded and began development on games for various publishers alongside continued development on the Lemon Engine.
The company's workforce grew in size over time, with its operations encompassing the creation of games for multiple publishers in addition to the development and release of proprietary titles. Ultimately, the company was disbanded in September of 2018.[1]
After years of focusing on middleware and game developments, Four Door Lemon started to develop games to be self-published on various platforms, alongside completing work-for-hire titles for other publishers.[2]
Four Door Lemon utilized its own technology for developments. The multi-platform Lemon Engine has been used in all FDL-developed titles, with a version now being used for the PS4 and Xbox One developments.
Four Door Lemon was a member of numerous video games related bodies, including UKIE (board member),[3] Game Republic,[4] TIGA, Made in creative UK[5] and Ga-Ma-Yo.[6]
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