Before They Were Stars:The Negativitron

The year was 1979,and a young Negativitron was looking for his “big break”.  He answered a classified ad seeking “a slightly deranged vacuum cleaner”for a new children’s book.  Showing up at Random House,he was immediately cast in the role of “hungry vacuum cleaner”in Richard Scarry‘s Best First Book Ever!.

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Mystery Microchip 1 Reveal

[We're still waiting to hear back from one of our winners,but want to thank again all who participated.  It was a lot of fun and also a learning experience.  We look forward to doing more things like this in the future,after [REDACTED].]

Here’s a short video showing the chip itself:

As some [...]

Afternoon Tea

Media Molecule just introduced a potential series they call “Afternoon Tea with the Molecules”. Interesting reading while we wait for the next podcast,I suppose. Lots of interesting bits from Technical Director Dave Smith (of “plagachef”fame). Having been tangentially involved with QA for a lot of my career,I especially like Dave’s take:

“QA [...]

No Mouse-and-Keyboard at LBP2 Launch

Here’s Spaff’s clarification on the LittleBigWorkshop forum:

Heya –this feature won’t be in the game at launch,we’ve pulled it back so we can make sure it works really well –we had it working,but it needed a lot of tweaking and testing,and because we have a lot of other stuff to [...]

Some Little Bits for August 11,2010

With thanks to tylerburritoALT and Smokeeye123 over on YouTube,I can finally get the music from the new LBP2 Adventure trailer. And since one of the replies about costumes and jumping accompanying the trailer caused a lot of excitement,and has been widely repeated,it’s worth noting Spaff’s reply to the reply:

Before we [...]

Not the remix you’re looking for

Saved from the rubbish bin,for good or ill:here’s the result of some playing around with Final Cut,with the intention of entering the LBP2 E3 Remix contest. Once the deadline had passed and it still looked awful,I discarded it. But now I’ve been persuaded that someone,somewhere might find it at least [...]

Epic E3 Report (LBP2 edition)

[Note:This post was going to be "Sackboy goes to E3",but I accidentally left Sackboy at home!]

[Note 2:The lighting on the E3 show floor is enough to give any cheap digital camera a fit.  My apologies for the horrible pics and videos.]

Thanks to some last-minute work-schedule wrangling (and having family [...]

Late-to-the-party Trailer Analysis pt 5

The fifth and final post in this series:

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Late-to-the-party Trailer Analysis pt 4

In a continuing effort to exceed my bandwidth allowance:

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Late-to-the-party Trailer Analysis pt 3

The bandwidth-intensive madness continues [with thanks to those who notice my incorrect scene numbering]:

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