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Change is the only constant

Post-Beta Pre-Launch Blues Part Two

First,without commenting directly on the recent unpleasantness,I’d like to give some words of encouragement to our friends at Sony and Media Molecule.  I’ve been part of enough suddenly-delayed releases to know what a horrendous pain it can be.  If any of you have time to read this between frantic phone calls and urgent [...]

Post-Beta Blues –Part One

Time to put the PS3 controller back on the shelf and dig into my inbox:

Those of you experiencing withdrawal can pour salt in your wounds by watching some Beta levels you may not have had an opportunity to play.  Wired has a top 10,Media Molecule has their Mmonday picks (1st Monday,2nd Monday).

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Amazing stuff from Parsons

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 [...]

Media Molecule to deliver Vision at GameCity 3

Just shortly after the launch of LittleBigPlanet,Media Molecule will be delivering the Vision Statement at this year’s GameCity videogame festival in Nottingham.

“The first GameCity festival was actually Media Molecule’s very first public appearance,so we’re thrilled to be able to return now having shipped LittleBigPlanet”,said Alex Evens of Media Molecule. “For us,[...]

High score chasing in LittleBigPlanet?

By now you’ve all seen the Media Molecule blog entry with the patchwork of screenshots showing off the lighting effects.  If not,go look,it’s wonderful.

But let’s take a look at something (warning:large images):

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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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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 [...]

Visiting the Magratheans

Since this is the time of year that the weather around LiBiPl.net HQ gets particularly unbearable,the crew opted for a short vacation in Surrey.  We were overjoyed to receive an invitation from the Molecules,and promptly rubbished our plans to visit Lewis Carroll in order to see our favourite game being polished and [...]