Last week took place the first Congreso de Desarrolladores de Vidojuegos (videogame developers conference) in Valencia, Spain. Organized by DOID, the goal of the event was to bring together as many people from the spanish games industry as possible. With more than 200+ people attended, from students to professionals developers working abroad, the goal was more than accomplished.

For us, the possibility to chat with fellow developers and expand our contacts network was great. The talks were also excellent overall, with speakers from companies such as Crytek, Grin, Pyro, Abylight, Rockstar or Virtual Toys. We can’t thank enough the organizers for their job and we hope CDV 2009 will be bigger and better.

Alvaro Vazquez (Grin Barcelona) on The Game Concept Stage. (Pics shamelessly stolen from NoticiasJuegos.com)

Ricard Pillosu (Crytek) on Agent Coordination using Behavior Trees

Miguel Villar checking his e-mail (left) and Olmo Ríos from El Neutrino Raro (right)

Welcome to our brand new blog!

We —Lemon Team— are an independent game developer based in Alicante, Spain, currently focused on Mac and iPhone game development and porting.

After years of freelancing or working for others, both Miguel and me decided to fund our own start-up to keep doing what we love best: developing games. Setting up the company has been a tiresome experience, not without problems. Our office is located at the local administration’s business incubator, which provides us with a host of services for a very low rent. You can check out some pictures of the office at the revamped About section.

Because we want you to trust us way before you need us, we will be blogging mainly about what we do and how we do it. We will regularly publish useful tidbits of information regarding game development —specially for the Mac or iPhone—, without getting too technical.

Thanks for reading, and see you on the next post!

Julio Gorgé, co-founder