Melon Dezign


Melon Dezign was an Amiga demoscene group founded in Denmark on October 21, 1991 by Seen and Paleface. Originally, they were a subgroup of Crystal, where they at first exclusively created intros for cracked games. Shortly after the formation, they were joined by Bannasoft, and after helping organise The Party, a demo event with more than 1200 attendees, several other members joined, including Walt, Mack, Performer, Audiomonster in France, Mikael and Benjamin in Norway and Mark Knight otherwise known as TDK in the UK.
The group was notable in the scene for their focus on design: this meant seamless transitions and less focus on impressive algorithms, although several of their productions gained high placings in competitions. Often, a Melon Dezign intro would feature a simple vector-based graphic on a bichrome background, where other scene groups at the time would have their vector graphics inside a window or as the only thing on screen. Their recognizable logo was also a recurring factor in their productions, where other groups often featured several different, even within the same production.
Paleface and Seen produced the game Naughty Ones which was released in 1994 by Interactivision. The AGA version of Naughty Ones was cracked by Crystal.

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Amiga demos

The French part of the group is now a web design company, specialising in commercial production of Flash animation. The Danish members have been involved in various web and games projects, such as the Hitman games from IO Interactive. TDK, having worked for Mindscape International, Bullfrog Productions, Electronic Arts, Visual Science, and Codemasters, released his first chiptune album, entitled Reawakening, on December 9, 2012. He left Codemasters in 2017 to form his own company, Sonic Fuel.