14 DAY TRIAL // One of the leaders of the development team behind Little Big Planet has revealed that the studio is now split into three teams: one of them in charge of management, one working on the PlayStation Vita-based Tearaway and another which is working on a yet unannounced project.
Alex Evans, who is one of the co-founders of Media Molecule, told Edge in an interview that, “An interesting thing about Media Molecule is that we actually enjoy tearing everything up and doing something we couldn’t have imagined doing before. That’s the positive of all this. As a studio, we want to keep everything fresh. We don’t want to be known as just the LittleBigPlanet studio, much as we love that. I think of Media Molecule more as creative gaming.”
He added, “For Tearaway, we’ve imagined creative gaming within a much more gamey game. For the R&D project, it’s creative gaming; go back to those two words and completely reimagine how people can create. It’s scary, but it’s exhilarating.”
Evans would not offer any sort of extra hint about the unannounced project that his company is working on, but his statements might indicate that Media Molecule is moving away from cute graphics and interesting mechanics and towards more adult fare.
Media Molecule is best known for creating the first two full games in the Little Big Planet franchise, which included core platform mechanics but also allowed gamers to create and share their own content.
Tearaway is an adventure game which will use the unique possibilities of the Sony handheld to bring to life a world made of paper and a main character that can affect it in various ways.
Tearaway is expected to arrive on the PlayStation Vita during 2013 and the unannounced game will probably be launched exclusively on the new Sony home console when it is launched, possibly during 2014.