Mark Healey Leaves Lionhead

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 24 May 2006 12:27:00 GMT

Mark Healey

Mark Healey, creator of the innovative and kind-of-fun fighting game Rag Doll Kung Fu, has left Lionhead Studios to start his own indie game development company with a few other ex-Lionhead vets. The company, Media Molecule, is currently working on an undisclosed game which they plan on pitching to publishers within the next three months.

You may recall that Lionhead Studios was acquired by Microsoft recently. (However, rumors that Peter Molyneux’s head has been grafted onto Bill Gates’ chest have been largely unfounded.)

(Source: Joystiq)

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  1. Lorne Whiting said about 3 hours later:

    Can’t honestly say I’m excited.

  2. ravuya said about 7 hours later:

    We’ll see what comes out of it.

  3. raigan said about 11 hours later:

    why in god’s name would they even bother with pitching to publishers when they’ve demonstrated they can make games without one?!

  4. Chris said about 16 hours later:

    Because Steam IS a publisher by Valve, they still have to go through the whole process sorting out deals and whatnot, just that it’s all digital and rather better for the developers.

  5. cliffski said 1 day later:

    so? sell direct online. Thats what I do. Publishers are a nightmare.

  6. Chris said 1 day later:

    “they’ve demonstrated they can make games without one?!”

    I was repsonding to this ^

  7. raigan said 1 day later:

    well.. Valve is just distributing/marketing the game via Steam. yes, technically they’re publishing it, but the phrase “pitching to publishers” implies the usual “get project green-lit by publisher, get big advance, make big-budget retail game”.

    my point was really that it seems like a step backward.

  8. Ryan Azar said 6 days later:

    The ragdoll kungfoo link is messed up. Might wanna fix that. And oh yeah, YAY! TIGSource is back :).

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