LBP Level-Building Tips in October EGM

It seems that EGM/1UP’s Shane Bettenhausen (with help from David Ellis) has been making good use of an early build of LittleBigPlanet.  October’s Electronic Gaming Monthly has a nice article giving us some tips from their first level-building attempt.

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PAX and Plush Toys and More

PAX

A games blog over at the Portland Mercury seemed impressed by LittleBigPlanet,and were nice enough to point out something that I think is being largely overlooked:

Unlike most world-building games,this platforming section is robust enough to functionally be its own game,much to the delight of those who don’t have [...]

Pax in bello –gloria mundi

Lots to report,before anything starts coming in from PAX:

First of all,the LittleBigPlanet News Site is showing off the official boxart for the USA [thanks Brian!].  I can’t decide whether I like the UK packaging better or not.  I like the USA crowd better than just showing two Sackboys,but the use [...]

Good times are coming your way

First of all,if you haven’t yet,go take a look at Media Molecule’s Leipzig photos.  Simply amazing.  And to those who ask “What about lighting?  Can we make dark levels?”,you might spy an answer in this image.

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Tearing away at the wrapping paper

Eurogamer posted a couple of blurbs from an interview with Alex Evans some time ago,promising the full interview soon.  Now they’ve revealed it,and there’s a lot of happy inside:

Getting more subtle,we track the creators of the levels –so the people are as important as the levels themselves. We have this [...]

It’s GameStop’s Turn

Another custom trailer,this time for GameStop. (scroll down to below “Expanded Information”)

This one’s the best so far.  But some scenes have the old “edit mode”box in the upper-left,so maybe it was actually the first one made?  We see the long wormy train thingy,monster truck demolition,some sort of spinny shooting [...]

Lots of Leipzig

The official PlayStation Blog has a missive from Pete Smith,detailing some of the Leipzig LittleBigPlanet experience.  I think it’s pretty popular:

There are over one hundred seats available to play the game from and every one is occupied –plus there’s a queue.

But the most important question is “Will we be seeing more [...]

Lovely Leipzig

The video of the LittleBigPlanet portion of Sony’s press conference is up on GameTrailers (part one,part two).  Items of note:

Saved sets of material/clothing/etc in the “My Costumes”section of the Pop-It. “The planet holds all of the levels:the user created levels,as well as the developer levels on the Blu-Ray.”The man [...]

Interview Central

As the days tick away toward “October”,more and more of the fans’questions can be definitively answered.  Following Gastronomic Gamer’s report from Edinburgh,and the appearance of an answer-laden Sony employee on both sides of the Atlantic,now the renaissance of LBPCentral.com continues as they receive answers to their questions from Mark Healey.  The [...]

Video Gastronomy [updated]

Our friend the Gastronomic Gamer continues to deliver,with nine videos from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.  I’ve re-ordered them here to push possible spoilers to the end.

First we have costume picking and messing about in the Pod,including an interesting view of some sort of debug menu.  It looks like the demoer chooses “Fill [...]