Submarine Channel
Rex Crowle
We caught up with Rex Crowle, a.k.a. Rexbox ahead of the release of Tearaway, a new game for the Playstation Vita. Tearaway is the latest masterstroke of the UK-based game developer Media Molecule. As the creative lead, Rex added a fair share of his signature creative mojo to this amazing new platformer.
It’s kind of impossible for me not to start gesticulating with my hands when I start talking about the game because it’s so… tactile!
As an art director of sorts, Rex was also involved with Media Molecule’s hit platformer LittleBigPlanet – one of the Playstation 3’s launch titles. We literally spent days navigating the loveable Sackboy through LittleBigPlanet’s incredibly tactile “Craftworld”. Even had a few go’s at building a level using LBA’s built-in level creator.
His resume says he’s a game designer, graphic designer, and animator, but we’d like to think of Rexbox a worldbuilder. Someone who loves the process of creating beautiful, challenging and intricately detailed universes that invite players to explore every nook and cranny.
Rex talks about how he first fell in love with gaming (in Game Aracades and on an Amiga, of course), walks us through the development process of Tearaway, and discusses how they took advantage of the unique Vita specs to create an ingeniously interactive Papercraft world in which you, the player, play a starring role in the game’s storyline.
Rexbox.co.uk | Tearaway.mediamolecule.com
CREDITS
Director, editor: Geert van de Wetering; Interview: Remco Vlaanderen; Camera: Niels de Roos; Sound: Steven van Dijk; Productie: Marlijn Koers; Publisher: Submarine Channel