For those of us attending the big Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, there’s an added bonus:  Media Molecule’s audio designer extra-ordinaire Kenny Young will be a speaker at the Audio Boot Camp, talking about “The Physics of Game Sound”.  Given our fondness for Kenny (and vice-versa), we’ll be certain to attend; [...]]]>

For those of us attending the big Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, there’s an added bonus:  Media Molecule’s audio designer extra-ordinaire Kenny Young will be a speaker at the Audio Boot Camp, talking about “The Physics of Game Sound”.  Given our fondness for Kenny (and vice-versa), we’ll be certain to attend; but we’ll try to be quiet and keep our sound-is-a-particle theories to ourselves.

Fanart/Craftiness

This one is still my favourite parody boxart.

One of many, I assume: A Sackboy in Spore.

For Mac OS X users, Little BIG Folders can give a crafty look to your desktop.

If you have an iPhone, you might [...]]]> My “stuff to blog” list is getting too long, so here goes:

Fanart/Craftiness

This one is still my favourite parody boxart.

One of many, I assume: A Sackboy in Spore.

For Mac OS X users, Little BIG Folders can give a crafty look to your desktop.

If you have an iPhone, you might like this theme.

More Sackboy papercraft – A relatively realistic dragon-masked Sackboy this time.

A great custom Sackboy t-shirt.

Crafty people seem to really be fond of Sackboy.

Interviews and Previews and Reviews and such

Kenny did a nice write-up on all things audio in the EU PlayStation Forums.

Geekdad was looking forward to LittleBigPlanet.  Experience with the Beta seems to have only increased the desire.  “Stop hogging the controller, Daddy!”

TheSixthAxis wondered what could make LittleBigPlanet a failure.  Then they gave away the swag they picked up in Manchester.

Part Two of GameIndustry.biz’s LittleBigAmbition interview with Alex talks a lot about community features.

Peter Molyneux thinks LBP could be a game which appeals to non-gamers as well.

Marketing

Mark Valledor spilled a little info on the LBP marketing campaign on the PlayStation Blog.  “Start watching TV in the beginning of October,” he says, then “what if I tell you we’ll have multiple TV spots running in Oct-Dec, Print advertising in Sep-Dec, Online advertising in Sep-Dec, and Viral activity in Sept-Dec”.

IGN now has a LittleBigPlanet Launch Center.

Playing in Public

Our Swedish readers can go play LittleBigPlanet at “2 New Days of HipHop”; dates and locations here.

I think that’s enough for now.. more soon(ish).

This appears to be the animation in the winning creation’s creature’s brain..?

MTV’s Multiplayer blog did a time-lapse of Team Awesome building their level.  Team Awesome co-won “Most Innovative”; the lighting, the crazy platforms, the high jumps.. can’t [...]]]> While the internet’s going Beta crazy, some more has come out of the Game Jam at Parsons:

This appears to be the animation in the winning creation’s creature’s brain..?

MTV’s Multiplayer blog did a time-lapse of Team Awesome building their level.  Team Awesome co-won “Most Innovative”; the lighting, the crazy platforms, the high jumps.. can’t wait to die a hundred times on it.

On the official PlayStation blog, they have a nice interview with Kenny and Kareem.

VentureBeat talked to Kareem as well.

Destructoid gives us a short look at each of the finalists.

Reuters even put up an article about LittleBigPlanet mentioning the contest.

But GameSpot really delivers with a bunch of playthrough videos.  Team Rocket did not disappoint me.

Thankfully, you’ll be able to play [...]]]> It looks like the 24-hour Game Jam event at Parsons The New School for Design was a big success.  Team Sportmanship walked away with the “Best of Jam” prize for their large-scale punishingly-difficult Ueda-inspired level.  PS3Fanboy has a good write-up with some pics and videos, including the good news:

Thankfully, you’ll be able to play all of these levels when LittleBigPlanet launches on PS3 in October.

I, for one, am very curious to see what Team Rocket came up with.  I’m prepared for trouble.

MTV’s Multiplayer Blog has a lot of pics, and lets us know that Kareem and Kenny from Media Molecule were there for the opening presentation.  I expect we’ll see more pics and video hit the web in the next few days.

[update: UGO posted an article talking about the contest and the winning level, although they did take time to give the standard complaint about the controls.]

[update: Kotaku has an article up as well.]