Four Door Lemon Ltd is an independent UK games developer and middleware company founded in 2005 by programmers Simon Barratt and Tim Wharton.

Since formation they have worked on over 30 titles of varying scales across all major gaming platforms as well as develop their multi-platform middleware package Lemon Engine which has been licensed out to numerous third party developers.

In 2008 they performed the programming work on Puzzler Collection (NDS/PS2/PSP/Wii/PC), Football Director for the NDS , several educational titles for NDS/Wii/PC and licensed technology for Premier Manager on PS2/PC. Puzzler Collection sales on the DS helped Ubisoft outsell Nintendo on their own platform

Four Door Lemon continue to provide quality work-for-hire and middleware services as well as working on several self-published projects.

Products

Four Door Lemon have worked on many projects from work-for-hire for publishers and other developers to full project production and development.

Lemon Engine is a set of middleware libraries and tools developed by Four Door Lemon. The engine was developed for Personal Computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

, Xbox

Xbox

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

, Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, PS2, PS3, Wii

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...

, Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

, Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 and iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

. The Engine was used for the majority of the company's titles, as well as being licensed out for many external developer and publisher projects and prototypes. Lemon Engine is sold under various license agreements.

Lemon Engine has been used in Puzzler Collection (Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

/Zoo Games), Premier Manager 09 (Zoo), Little Britain: The Video Game

Little Britain: The Video Game

Little Britain: The Video Game is a collection of mini-games presented in the format of an episode from the TV show and players can get interactive with the sketch show characters in a series of eight mini-games featuring Lou and Andy, Vicky Pollard, Mr. Mann, Emily and Florence, Marjorie Dawes,...

 (Mastertronic

Mastertronic

Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

) and Football Director DS.

In 2009 Four Door Lemon released QuizQuizQuiz for the iPhone / iPod Touch which achieved #2 in the French Paid App chart and #4 in the UK Paid App chart in October 2009.

So far in 2010 they have released You Are The Ref

You Are The Ref

You Are The Ref is a British comic strip featuring a series of awkward football refereeing challenges, which has run in various publications since 1957...

, QuizQuizQuiz World Football and also developed audio only game Aurifi with Punk Pie Ltd.