CREATOR INTERVIEW

Creating Little Nightmares

An exclusive interview with Dave Mervik of Tarsier Studios, creators of the creepy platformer/puzzler Little Nightmares

Formed in 2004, Tarsier Studios in Sweden got its start working with Sony on the Little Big Planet series of games. That association with Media Molecule lead to them bringing a bigger and better version of Tearaway to the PlayStation 4 as Tearaway Unfolded. They headed next to the wilds of PSVR to make the puzzler Statik, and then in 2017 released Little Nightmares, a creepy and atmospheric platformer/puzzler, to wide acclaim. Their latest game is The Stretchers, a Nintendo Switch exclusive comedy puzzle game.

Before the end of 2020 they will return to the existing IP well for the first time, as they are currently wrapping up development on Little Nightmares 2. We recently sat down (virtually) with the studio’s Head of Communication, Dave Mervik (Merv) to talk about that, the studio’s origins, and so much more!

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Thank you Merv for joining us on the interview, I wanted to start by congratulating you and everyone at the studio for the tremendous success of Little Nightmares, now having sold over 2 million copies.