Lemon (developer)
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Lemon was a video game developer founded in 1994 by Søren Hannibal and Jacob Andersen.

Lemon created the voxel
Voxel
A voxel is a volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space. This is analogous to a pixel, which represents 2D image data in a bitmap...

 based 3D shooter Amok, for Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...

 and PC (a PlayStation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

 version was underway but was cancelled in the end). Programmer Martin Pollas joined in 1996 to work on the PC version of Amok.

When Lemon’s publisher, Scavenger, went bankrupt the team split up. Søren went to work for Shiny Entertainment (creating the Matrix
Enter the Matrix
Enter the Matrix is the first video game based on The Matrix series of films. It was developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Atari and WB Interactive for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube game systems, and for the PC. It was published in Japan by Bandai...

 games) while Jacob and Martin joined up with the remaining members of Zyrinx
Zyrinx
Zyrinx was a video game developer founded in 1992 in Copenhagen, Denmark.The first game developed by Zyrinx was Subterrania for the Sega Mega Drive. During the development the team relocated to Boston. Later, the team developed the games Red Zone and Scorcher. Zyrinx's 3D rendering technology was...

 to form Reto-Moto
Reto-Moto
Reto-Moto is a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games...

 (Hitman series
Hitman (series)
Hitman is a stealth game series developed by the Danish company IO Interactive. The series is available on PC as well as several video game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. The game series has since expanded into a novel, Hitman: Enemy Within written by...

 and Freedom Fighters
Freedom Fighters (video game)
Freedom Fighters, originally titled Freedom: The Battle For Liberty Island, is a 2003 third-person shooter video game available for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows that is set in an alternate history...

) in 1998.

Before Lemon, Søren and Jacob created the Amiga
Amiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 Game Banshee
Banshee (game)
Banshee is a vertically scrolling 2D shoot 'em up computer game that was released on Amiga 1200 and Amiga CD32 in 1994 by Core Design.-External links:*...

while working at British game deveoper/publisher Core Design
Core Design
Core Design was a British video game studio best known today for creating the popular Tomb Raider series.-History:Based in the city of Derby, England, Core Design was set up in 1988 by Chris Shrigley, Andy Green, Rob Toone, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore, Jeremy Heath-Smith and Greg Holmes...

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