Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has left the Dreams developer

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Mark Healey, co-founder of Little Massive Planet developer Media Molecule and director of Desires, has left the studio after 17 years.


Healey introduced the information on his private Twitter account, confirming that he has left Media Molecule, the studio he helped co-found in 2006 alongside Alex Evans, Kareem Ettouney, and David Smith. “So, after 17 unimaginable years of co-birthing and constructing Media Molecule – I’ve determined it’s time for me to fly the nest – set sail and chart a brand new course – at this time is my final day at MM,” Healey wrote on Twitter.


Speaking about Little Massive Planet and Desires, he continued, “proud to have performed my half and fortunate to have jammed with some really sensible individuals… however a robust cosmic breeze is pulling me and my pirate coronary heart is woke up, I am not getting any youthful so am going to indulge myself within the winds of my numerous curiosities for some time and see the place they take me.” Healey rounded issues off by saying he is “off on a pirate journey! (One which entails making video games that’s),” nevertheless it is not clear whether or not meaning he’ll be engaged on one thing pirate associated, or if he is simply having a little bit of enjoyable together with his wording.


Healey has an extended profession within the video games trade, having labored at Lionhead Studios (lead by the notorious Peter Molyneux) on titles like Black & White and Fable. There he labored together with his future Media Molecule co-founders earlier than the group left Lionhead to kind their very own studio.


This comes only a week after it was introduced that Media Molecule could be ending help for Desires later this yr, which Healey served as a director on. It is not all dangerous information for Media Molecule although, because the developer did additionally announce it’s engaged on a brand new recreation, although no particular particulars had been supplied on it.