When kids are growing up, they envision game development studios as places where everyone is free to do what they would like as they work on a game. That couldn’t be farther from the fact for many studios, but it surely does appear to a reasonably apt description of Media Molecule.

Sony’s Media Molecule – the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and upcoming Vita platformer Tearaway – is the topic of a brand new video that goes backstage on the game development studio. It’s an attractive have a look at the type of open work environment the workers enjoy as they’re free to interact in what could best be described as mini-Game Jams.

Some of the precise games of the past few years have come from indie development studios that encourage the type of experimentation and creativity that caused the creation of games like LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway. Now, that sort of labor environment might have been replaced by the design by committee workplace that’s seen so often in big game studios in recent times. It just adds one more reason to be thankful that Sony didn’t implement such drastic changes when it acquired the studio many years ago.

If it’s good to see the result of Media Molecule’s efforts, you’ll be ready to pick up Tearaway on November 22. The sport is exclusively available for the PlayStation Vita, and it was built with the platform specifically in mind from the appearance of it.

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