LittleBigPlanet – Over 3 Million Community Levels!

[caliblue15]

I will also give you guys a hint, republishing your levels gives it more looks, i do it once in the morning, and once at night, just overwriting the old file, cause i have 126 looks, but cymbol only has 37...

[netguy503]

I think its funny but you cant see this.

[canonbomb1987]

wtf is going on with the LBP servers. i downloaded the new update and now i cant connect. anyone else having this problem?

[caliblue15]

No problem here...

Update on the Thanksgiving thing..



Its a turkey head..

Edit: And resistance isn't free... as seen by the 200 yen price.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by canonbomb1987

wtf is going on with the LBP servers. i downloaded the new update and now i cant connect. anyone else having this problem?

No - I re-published my level and played a couple of buddies online - that was over an hour ago though - not sure if there is a recent issue. But right after I did the update, everything worked just fine.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

I thought it was funny too, but no one else does.. lol..

I thought it was funny, but if I didn't know you, I might get annoyed. I chuckled out loud.

Anyways, Great level, great presentation, now if only mine was that polished.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Originally Posted by caliblue15

I will also give you guys a hint, republishing your levels gives it more looks, i do it once in the morning, and once at night, just overwriting the old file, cause i have 126 looks, but cymbol only has 37...

Ah, I just re-published tonight (cause I made some small tweaks that people had suggested) - and it went up 10 views in just an hour. (It's been sitting around 27 for days and days. . .)

Thanks for the tip.

[toef]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

I don't even know where to look for the "hearts as a creator" thing.

The way I check is to go to Me (on the left planet) then My Levels, and the instead of hovering over one of your levels, hover over your avatar/icon, and it will show how many levels you have (and it appears you are limited to making 20) as well as how many hearts you as a person have. I think I was up to 22 or 23 a little while ago. 30 is in site, hopefully it doesn't take forever.

[netguy503]

I already guessed that the R2 stuff wouldn't be free as it wasn't with the tv head which is free this week. Now the only question is will it be in a pack with other R2 stuff (even a "theme sticker pack" like the GOW stuff) would be nice or will it be sold as just a "premium" costume (like motor storm and if so will you buy it? It looks worse IMHO then the Motor Storm outfit).

The update works fine for me. Though the search is now messed up slightly for me and will now give me messages that it can't find what im trying to search for even though it never did that before.

[toef]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

No problem here...

Just played your level again, and some random comments to do whatever you want with:

1) The baloons in the beginning should be more like the balloons later on the level (Attached to the ground with a string). Sometimes its easy to run out of balloons -- not from using them all, but because they turn sideways and twist out of reach. Another option, I guess, is if you lowered the block that is preventing them from going higher.

2) Add something else to the monster truck. It seems a bit slow, and doesn't really accomplish much. Maybe just set the ground on fire, or something, so you feel a need to stay inside the truck.

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by toefer

Just played your level again, and some random comments to do whatever you want with:

1) The baloons in the beginning should be more like the balloons later on the level (Attached to the ground with a string). Sometimes its easy to run out of balloons -- not from using them all, but because they turn sideways and twist out of reach. Another option, I guess, is if you lowered the block that is preventing them from going higher.

2) Add something else to the monster truck. It seems a bit slow, and doesn't really accomplish much. Maybe just set the ground on fire, or something, so you feel a need to stay inside the truck.

Already got a comment on the balloons turning, so ill raise the floor... ( I did it that way to give a kind of puzzle feel, you can only need to use 4 ballons, and that is easy to do even if they do turn over...

As for the monster truck, I actually made it go faster, making it go any faster makes it turn over... but setting stuff on fire, not a bad idea...

I might also add some death fog between the mountains and stuff so it looks cool..

Any suggestions on what I could do where all the bubbles are in the middle.. those are just filler..

Edit: Also why its version 0.7. Also need to fix camera on the jumping part of the level..

Is the level getting better at least??

[caliblue15]

Oh, also, my secret hilarious level cymbol is at 10 plays with 7 hearts! lol

[toef]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

Oh, also, my secret hilarious level cymbol is at 10 plays with 7 hearts! lol

I've finally cracked triple digit hearts on a single level. My next goal is quadruple digits for plays. I think altogether my three levels have about 1300 plays, and 180 hearts.

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by toefer

I've finally cracked triple digit hearts on a single level. My next goal is quadruple digits for plays. I think altogether my three levels have about 1300 plays, and 180 hearts.

i have like 33 total hearts, 15 for me... almost there...

Edit: Also posted mine on neogaf, to get more publicity and more views on how to fix the level.

Cymbol, they would love yours...

[netguy503]

dude, toefer, your connect four level is GENIUS and has spawned SO MANY copycats...I guess its easy then I thought to do a working, functional connect 4 board.

[toef]

Originally Posted by netguy503

dude, toefer, your connect four level is GENIUS and has spawned SO MANY copycats...I guess its easy then I thought to do a working, functional connect 4 board.

Haha. Thanks. I do pride myself on having the first, because I made it the first or second day of the beta, and made minor changes since the retail game came out (added music, changed the material the ramp was made of, etc.). I've seen some that are a 3x4 grid, which certainly doesn't give you many ways to connect four in a row; others had blue chips instead of black ones. Who knows why they did that, but it's not that hard to get right.

Anyhow, after a week or two, I realized it was kind of boring as a 1-player level, so I decided to add the idea of the guy in the beginning being a criminal, and put him on the Wanted poster at the end (sans the disguise), hoping people would get the connection. Then I put him on the mystery rainbow chip that you find, if you empty out enough of the connect four chips.

In case anyone hasn't figured it out, I'm explaining the secret here:

Start filling up the Connect Four board, and eventually a rainbow swirly chip with the guy's face on it will roll out of the ramp. Take that chip and carry it over the Connect Four board, and drop it on the ground, then when you are done playing, drag this chip to the end of the level, where the Wanted poster is, and it will release a downpour of point bubbles, for "catching" the bad guy.

I only wish there was a way for it to detect getting four in a row. I'm sure there is, but it could get pretty complicated, and I haven't really put too much thought into it. The Tetris level makes a lot more sense, in how it knows that you filled up a line, but that similar method wouldn't work on connect four. Figuring this out is probably my next project, before I work on a 4th level.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by toefer

Haha. Thanks. I do pride myself on having the first, because I made it the first or second day of the beta,

The connect 4 board was one of the first ones I hearted - nicely done.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

i have like 33 total hearts, 15 for me... almost there...

Edit: Also posted mine on neogaf, to get more publicity and more views on how to fix the level.

Cymbol, they would love yours...

Posted on neogaf? Is that a website?

I'm hard at work on my next level - I'm thinking I won't have enough room to finish it on one globe - I may have to publish what I have (when I'm finish in a couple of weeks - I rarely get the time I need to make much progress in one sitting ) - and then add a Key later to open up the next level to continue the story. The follow on levels will be much shorter but more specifically themed and fitting into one big story.

I'm probably biting off way more than I can chew - but hey, worst case scenario I fall flat on my face and everyone hates my levels. . . good thing it's just a game.

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by dgator783

neither does July 4th, as we kicked you butts in the revolutionary war baby! ...lol.....itd be kool if we got something for Guy Faux day though....

Have little V's running around everywhere :P

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

Posted on neogaf? Is that a website?

I'm hard at work on my next level - I'm thinking I won't have enough room to finish it on one globe - I may have to publish what I have (when I'm finish in a couple of weeks - I rarely get the time I need to make much progress in one sitting ) - and then add a Key later to open up the next level to continue the story. The follow on levels will be much shorter but more specifically themed and fitting into one big story.

I'm probably biting off way more than I can chew - but hey, worst case scenario I fall flat on my face and everyone hates my levels. . . good thing it's just a game.

Its a site, alot of fans of videogames, also alot of developers frequent over there. Most of their levels are insanely good.

One of the guys made an LCD screen... and have animations going, etc..

Easy way to get hearts if they see it, and love it..

[Shin-Ra]

1.04 update probably contains 2 or 3 weeks worth of new costumes.