Rag Doll Kung Fu Guy Goes it Alone

Most recently, artist Mark Healey has been getting attention for being the designer and almost sole developer of Rag Doll Kung Fu, an independent Steam-distributed action game with a unique mouse-driven control scheme. However, Healey has also been working for Lionhead Studios since its inception, and prior to that worked at Peter Molyneux former studio Bullfrog. Now, via the Steam forums, he has just announced his departure from Lionhead and intention to found a new development studio. Healey plans to finish up some loose ends with Rag Doll Kung Fu then start new development with his two RDKF co-developers next year.

I've left Lionhead - a very hard decision for me, but one I have made - my current plan is to spend rest of this year finishing the map editor with Alex, get the free demo out (sorry about delay on this - it's in Valves hands as to when and how they release it), and then set up a dev team, to make a new game next year, with Alex and Dave, who helped out on Rag Doll. (This time, it will be full time, none of this spare time business, TOO TIRING!) I would like to point out that I didn't leave Lionhead on bad terms or anything, it was just time for a change really (I was there from the very start!).