History
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Mark Healey and his friends make a Kung Fu movie
Made in the Guildford countryside one July with a budget of £50, and starring Mark Healey in the lead role, this movie went on to become the inspiration for Rag Doll Kung Fu. It was also used to make the game's cut scenes.
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Pitching to PlayStation with Mr Yellowhead
Mark, Alex, Kareem and Dave pitched to PlayStation using the 'Mr Yellowhead' demo. This demo was a crude physics driven platforming game, with a multiplayer LAN drum machine built into it, and featuring a charater with a yellow head, who's destiny was to become Sackboy.
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Media Molecule Founded
Media Molecule was founded by Mark Healey, Alex Evans, Kareem Ettouney, David Smith who met whilst working at Lionhead Studios, plus the man with the business plan, Chris Lee and our lovely accountant, Mags Hardwick. Soon After they were joined by their friend Siobhan Reddy, formerly of Criterion Games, Anton Kirczenow and Francis Pang.
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Expanded into the office space next door
Mm Towers was getting jam-packed with developers, so more studio space was needed. Luckily the space next door to ours was empty, so we moved in there.
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LittleBigPlanet wins 8 DICE Awards
LittleBigPlanet sweeps the DICE Awards in Los angeles, taking home eight of the awards, including Overall Game of the Year, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming and Console Game of the Year.
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LittleBigPlanet wins a BAFTA!
LittleBigPlanet wins a BAFTA for Artistic Achievement
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View on Flickr: BAFTA Awards 2009
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LittleBigPlanet wins 4 GDC Awards
LittleBigPlanet takes home four awards at the annual Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco, for Innovation, Technology, Best Debut Game, and Best Game Design.
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LittleBigPlanet wins 4 Develop Awards
LittleBigPlanet wins big at the Develop conference in Brighton, taking home four awards including Technical Innovation, Best New IP, and Artistic Achievement.
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Moved out of our old studio
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Moved to our new studio
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View on Flickr: Office Move
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LBP.me launched
LBP.me, the web portal for the LittleBigPlanet community, is launched.
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LittleBigPlanet 2 sets 7 World Records
At a special event in New York, a group of Molecules and community members set seven Guinness World Records including Most user-generated video game levels played in 24 hours and Most player-created levels in one video game.
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LittleBigPlanet 2 Launch Party
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View on Flickr: LBP2 Launch Party
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LittleBigPlanet 2 wins us a Develop Award
We picked up the award for Best In-House Studio at the 2011 Develop Awards in Brighton
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LittleBigPlanet 2 wins a DICE Award
LittleBigPlanet 2 lands us us the Family Game of the Year award at the DICE Awards in Las Vegas
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7 Million Levels
The combined number of levels on LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 reaches 7 million.
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iota and atoi are born
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Tech demo of new PS4 project unveiled
At the PlayStation 4 announcement event in New York, we unveiled a tech demo of our PS4 project.
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Tearaway wins a Games Critics Award
Tearaway bestowed with the Best Handheld Game award at by the E3 Games Critics Awards
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Tearaway Launch Party
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Tearaway.me launched
Tearaway's community site, Tearaway.me launches in preparation for the game's release.
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Tearaway wins a SXSW Gaming Award
Tearaway wins the Design and Direction award at the first ever SXSW Gaming awards in Austin, TX.
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Tearaway wins 3 BAFTAs
Tearaway wins three BAFTAs for Mobile & Handheld, Family, and Artistic Achievement
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View on Flickr: BAFTA Games Awards 2014!
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Tearaway Unfolded announced at GamesCom
Tearaway Unfolded for PlayStation 4 is officially announced at GamesCom 2014.
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Dreams announced at E3 2015
Our new project is finally unveiled to the world during Sony's E3 2015 press conference in Los Angeles.
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Kath joins Media Molecule, creating our first catered Kitchen!
Kath's arrival brought a new world of incredibly healthy and delicious dinners, cakes, snacks, fresh pastries, luncheons and BBQ's. The health and wellbeing of all Molecule's improved ten fold from this day forth!
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Tearaway Unfolded goes to EGX
A weekend of fun and squirrelling frolics at Eurogamer Expo.
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View on Flickr: EGX 2015
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Our first ever Dreams Livestream
We went behind the scenes with Dreams and showed you all an exclusive glimpse into our studio.
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Dreams shown at Paris Games Week
Mark and Alex went up on the big stage at Paris Games Week to reveal exclusive new Dreams footage and we also hosted our first ever Dreams community meetup.
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Tearaway Unfolded gets exclusive new downloadable content
Tearaway Unfolded received brand new content, including the amazing 'Gopher Show' PS4 Theme, iota and atoi avatars and Christmas decorations. Win!
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View on Flickr: Tearaway Unfolded DLC
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Media Molecule is 10 years old!
We celebrate an incredible ten years of Media Molecule, with a number of events throughout the year.
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Dreams shown at UK PlayStation Community Event
We were invited along as special guests to demo Dreams and hang out with the awesome PlayStation UK community.
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Mm Brighton starts to take shape
Mm Brighton office starts to take shape, with furniture arriving.
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New carpet tiles go down in Mm Brighton
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Mm Anniversary content released for LittleBigPlanet 3
In celebration of our 10th birthday, we worked together with Sumo Digital to release the Mm Anniversary Costume Pack for LittleBigPlanet 3.
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Mm Brighton revealed!
Our brand new satellite micro-studio is revealed, in one of our favourite places - Brighton!
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Dreams Beta plans revealed
We release an update regarding our plans for the Dreams Beta.
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Collaboration with Punchdrunk announced
In December we saw our dreams become a reality as we got the chance to collaborate with interactive theatre company Punchdrunk on a very unique opportunity.
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Tearaway Unfolded is FREE on PS Plus
Our papery adventure was available to download for free in PlayStation's PS Plus line-up for March 2017.
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Danny joins us for Work Experience
Our best pal Danny from DreamBubble joined us in the studio for a week of work experience.
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Kareem talks Dreams at the VFX Festival
Kareem took to the stage at the VFX Festival in London to discuss 'Making our Dreams': a talk exploring the principle of expressive UGC and world design.
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Community challenge accepted!
Kahlief on Twitter challenged us to remake this beautiful snail photo in Dreams and we happily accepted. Emilie made this stunning recreation in just 2 hours!
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Dreams at PSX 2017
We headed off to San Francisco to take part in the PSX festivities! We showcased the game's tools live on-stage, and Siobhan, Mark and Alex sat down with our ol' pal Tim Schafer to chat all things Dreams!
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All Aboard for Train Jam!
We packed up Abbie, Ed, Alex and John and popped them on a train bound for GDC to take part in Train Jam! In the 72 hours they had, they brought Comic Sands to life in Dreams!
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Read All About it!
Introducing: Mm Monthly! Our monthly newsletter rounds-up everything Media Molecule, Dreams updates, community info and so much more!
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Dreams at E3 2018
We had a BIG 2018, and E3 2018 kicked things in to full gear in June! We showed the world what Dreams was capable of with a live musical performance, brought Mega Penguin to life and even won a couple of awards! *fanfare*
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A pocket full of pictures of what we got up to in LA!
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Media Molecule at Pride 2018
We were lucky enough to join our PlayStation friends at Pride in London and took part in the annual festivities throughout London!
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Jamal's Work Experience at Mm!
Jamal, aka Glitchfish to you lovely lot, spent a week with us here at Mm Towers for work experience!
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Dreams at PAX West 2018
PAX was a collection of firsts! Our first PAX panel, the first public hands-on with Dreams and even our first Dreams pin badge!
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Game Informer Cover Story
We had the AMAZING honour to be the Game Informer cover story for November 2018! The entire magazine cover was created in Dreams by our Art Molecule, Jon Eckersley!
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Halloween Spooktacular
We got spoOoOooky at Mm Towers AND in Dreams for Halloween '18! We dressed up, created some spoopy things in Dreams and carved some (virtual) pumpkins!
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Happy Birthday, LittleBigPlanet!
Sackboy celebrated his 10TH BIRTHDAY in 2018?! Pinch us, please! We partied in true Mm fashion with a fabulous cake, while Christophe wowed us and you alike by creating The Garden in Dreams!
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Dreams Creator Beta
We did it! The Dreams Creator Beta ran from 19th December ALL the way to 4th February, and we couldn't believe the amount of love, support and excitement we saw from all of you in the CoMmunity!
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Dreams Early Access Announced
Dreams Early Access is coming Spring 2019, and we are SO excited!
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Thanks to all of you for joining us on our journey!
Who knows what the future will bring?Minty biscuits!
In the meantime, check out whats going on right now over on our blog-o-rama!
