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We’ve been playing about with the Face Research averager - a neat bit of software that lets you upload faces then combine them. Apparently, if there was to be a big old Media Molecule love-in, then this is what our collective child would look like. (S)he’s so… weirdly smooth. mmmmmmmm. Buttery.

While the program seems to be most effective with a large number of samples, you can get some of the most freaky and ‘characterful’ results when the number of parents is low… behold our inbred Sackboy and sound departments (top-left and bottom-right respectively):

Clockwise, from top-left: Sackboy team, coders, sound team, artists.

The games industry is famously male-dominated. We’re not immune from that here at the molecule, but being a lovely fair and gender-agnostic place, we have a fair few ladies here on the dev team. Here’s what a female molecule looks like:

We’ve just noticed that Media Molecule is 2 years old today, we’re growing up fast! According to Baby Centre this means the team are at the stage where: “He starts to form images in his mind, organise categories and arrange things in order. His memory is also improving and a minority at this age will already know their basic colours. Some can even count up to five” So that sounds about right. And according to Jonny it’s also a couple months more than it takes an elephant to gestate - if only we’d impregnated an elephant back then, things would be so different now.

It also means its 2 years since we painted our office, here it is then:

And here’s the same wall now!

So many memories!

I even wore some special socks to celebrate.