 In January 2012, Media Molecule had spent on research and development to develop new innovative games aiming to reduce the reliance on the "LittleBigPlanet" brand name.In August 2012, they announced "Tearaway" led by Smith and Rex Crowle, with 15 developers working on it.The rest of the studio were working on another project—this being "Dreams"— which was in the research and development phase.