| Alex Evans | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Co-Founder and technical director of Media Molecule |
Alex Evans[1] is a UK based video games developer.[2] Evans previously worked at Guildford-based Lionhead Studios and developed the video game Rag Doll Kung Fu independently. He is the co-founder of Media Molecule,[3] a video games studio based in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. The studio's first project was a cooperative platformer for the PlayStation 3 entitled LittleBigPlanet, which received worldwide acclaim and won several gaming awards.[4] Evans contributed to LittleBigPlanet by creating a games engine[5] for it. Evans has also been the figurehead for advertising[6] the game to reviewers,[7][8] and helping Sony showcase the game at various expos.[9] For example, at E3 2008, Evans helped Sony showcase their quarterly sales via a specially created LittleBigPlanet level.[10] Ever since appearing and discussing LittleBigPlanet for the first time at the game developers' conference 2007,[11] Evans has been renowned in the gaming world.[12]
Evans was active in the Demoscene during the 1990s and was known by the handle "Statix". Most of his work was highly acclaimed – 303 is one of the first demos to include an entire vocal track (compressed into a standard module by a custom MPEG-packer) in the music, while Tomthumb and Staying Pictures are one of the first "generative" demos, the former being a winner of Most Original Concept at the 2002 Scene.org Awards.