LittleBigPlanet – Over 3 Million Community Levels!

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by sega_smasher

im 14 hears to my persona away from my golden trophy. who wants to help me out? i'll return the favor! =)

shoot me your psn id or one of your levels name in a PM and i'll get it done by today. thanks for those who are willing!

psn ID is in my sig.

(help me beat Cali in trophies!!! i'm catching up!)

Really catching up.. not after i get to play ps3 for 7 days straight night.. good night farewell.

[sega_smasher]

Originally Posted by Steverhcp02

PSN ID: SteveRHCP02
Level Name: Sackboy of the Rings

Just finished my first pretty large level (thermometer 90% full) I wanted to take Sackboy through Rivendell but had to stop at his arrival! Let me know what you think!

Add me as a friend so i can play all of your levels too!

will do right now.
my level is "Trophy Hunters Wanted" ... yeah its short and pointless if you have the trophies but it sure does give me plays! lol.

as for you cali, 7 days isnt nothing to me. sure i work and go to school but i try and put in my nights with my ps3. lucky for you gears 2 was taking up my time, but now that i practically got all the achievements in that, its time for some trophy hunting!

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by sega_smasher

will do right now.

as for you cali, 7 days isnt nothing to me. sure i work and go to school but i try and put in my nights with my ps3. lucky for you gears 2 was taking up my time, but now that i practically got all the achievements in that, its time for some trophy hunting!

that's 7 days of nothing else to do... I also have 32 more trophies than you, and most of my games are at 20%.

[mlomeli]

all this reading makes me want this game just to figure out what you mean by "hearted your level"

[sega_smasher]

i'm getting there with R2, i have GTA to beat again... and that plat trophy for Uncharted. i gave up on pain though lol... worst game i have on my ps3. oh and blitz the leauge...though idk about those glitches. i havent started it up since ideal scared me away.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by Steverhcp02

PSN ID: SteveRHCP02
Level Name: Sackboy of the Rings

Just finished my first pretty large level (thermometer 90% full) I wanted to take Sackboy through Rivendell but had to stop at his arrival! Let me know what you think!

Add me as a friend so i can play all of your levels too!

Sounds like it could be fun - I hate the thermometer! If you give me a room, I should be able to fill it up with whatever I want!

I had to end my first level cause I couldn't add anything else - so it ends with a motorcycle ride out of the level - definitely not what I envisioned.

My second level is already 3/4 full and I've barely got half way where I wanted. Looks like I'll have to end this level early as well and provide a "Key" to a second level to continue/finish my simple story, just a bummer cause it messes up the flow.

[sega_smasher]

couldnt find your level? found your persona though and i played "fun with pistons" thats you right? lol

edit: nvm found it

[toef]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

How did they get it labeled -"NeoGAF"? Did they write that in the title of the level?

I haven't been playing a lot of user made boards - I usually just play buddies levels - and work on my own level when I find the time, so I'm not really up to date on these things.

Yes, pretty much. Since I don't use that forum, I don't know if they were legit members, because anyone (including me) and just go change the title of my level to NeoGAF - Connect Four.

They weren't all bad, and some were quite good, but the NeoGAF isn't like a USDA Prime sort of mark of quality.

[toef]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

Sounds like it could be fun - I hate the thermometer! If you give me a room, I should be able to fill it up with whatever I want!

I hate it too, but can see why (as I'm sure you do too) it is the way it is.

I was toying with the idea of making a Double Dare obstacle course a few weeks ago, but saw that there were already a couple (though as of last night none of them had more than 40 plays, which means there's plenty of room for a good one to appear and crush the rest).

Anyhow, I decided the first obstacle I'd work on was the balloon pit that they would jump in and run across. So I made small circular sponges (like in my Presidential Race level) and used all the basic colors I could find (pink, yellow, green, blue, red, and I think that was it). So after pasting 8-10 of each color ball on the back layer, I used the select tool to select all of them, and hit copy, and then pasted them to the middle layer...no problem. Copied another set to the front layer, and the thermometer overheated.

So now the thermometer makes no sense to me. It's not like I was doing anything particularly crazy. It was just a bunch of circle sponges, all the same size, but in 5 different colors. I'm thinking that maybe it was the physics involved, since sometimes its not the amount of stuff in the level, as much as it is the amount of stuff in a small space.

In other news, I'm closing in on 2,000 combined plays on my levels, with something like 220 hearts (I haven't checked since last night). Sadly still only 26 hearts as a creator, but I've wanted to earn them the legit way, and I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

And still other news, I used to think that heart/play ratios mattered, but then I realized they don't make sense. You would think a 1:1 ratio is great, because everyone that played your level hearted it. But that also means everyone that hearted your level only played it once. So a ratio of 1:100 might mean it's bad (because nobody hearts it) but it could also mean its great and that the people who hearted it keep coming back and playing it again and again. I'm pretty sure the play count is not unique (like YouTube does it) where it only counts as 1 per person, regardless of how many times a person plays it. So a 500 play count means it was played 500 times, but that could be 500 times by 1 person, or 500 different people played once, or anywhere in between.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by toefer

So after pasting 8-10 of each color ball on the back layer, I used the select tool to select all of them, and hit copy, and then pasted them to the middle layer...no problem. Copied another set to the front layer, and the thermometer overheated.

So now the thermometer makes no sense to me. It's not like I was doing anything particularly crazy. It was just a bunch of circle sponges, all the same size, but in 5 different colors. I'm thinking that maybe it was the physics involved, since sometimes its not the amount of stuff in the level, as much as it is the amount of stuff in a small space.

I experienced the same thing last night - I have a race built into my holiday theme. Basically, in the scene, Jack Frost (my bad guy) decides to see who's faster, you or the cold air filling the room. . .

Anyway, I start building and the themometor sky rocketed in just a few pastes - I deleted it all, did it again and it's holding steady. WTF?! The difference seemed to be that I didn't paste all my objects - I made and tweaked each one individually this time, of course, it took more time that way.

One thing that seems to really overheat the level quickly is adding in lots of "created objects". It seems that if you "build" many objects, it's not a huge deal, but if you build an object, save it, then start pasting it again and again your level starts to heat up quick.

You noticed the same thing?

[Steverhcp02]

Originally Posted by sega_smasher

couldnt find your level? found your persona though and i played "fun with pistons" thats you right? lol

edit: nvm found it

haha yeah the pistons level is an abomination...i made that before even completing a third of the story and made it too fast....the sackboy of the rings is pretty fun though...especially for those familiar with the novels.

[sega_smasher]

i actually enjoyed the piston level. the LOTR one was pretty sweet too. i lack the "creativity" thing which is why i have yet to obtain my gold trophy. btw, if you just search for a person's name *i.e. SecretAgentHam* then all their levels come up, including the characters page. so why dont ya give me a search and play my 2 levels and hear me ? =D CMON!!!! lol

[toef]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

One thing that seems to really overheat the level quickly is adding in lots of "created objects". It seems that if you "build" many objects, it's not a huge deal, but if you build an object, save it, then start pasting it again and again your level starts to heat up quick.

You noticed the same thing?

This is what I thought at first, but I'm not sure how big of a difference it makes anymore.

In my newest level (the Mega Maze Contest) I included a little mouse character that you have to carry with you (because he has an invisible magnet key attached to him, and makes the doors dissolve, for you to pass through). Along the way through the maze, you can "free" the 3 blind mice, who are all stuck. For the blind mice, I just copied 3 new copies of the mouse object I already created, but added a pair of sunglasses, and a number (so there's mouse 1, 2, and 3). So that wasn't a huge deal, I guess, because I was just using one object.

So then I decided to give away each mouse as a prize, and saved each mouse separately, so that there are now four mice (Mr. Mouse, which is the one you carry, and then Hickory, Dickory and Doc, are the three blind mice).

The way I set up the level, if you "rescue" one of the trapped mice, it makes a 2nd copy of them drop from a trap that's suspended near the finish gate, so that it looks like they met you there at the end of the level (kind of like the Collector's Lair level in story mode). So to do this, I loaded up each of the 4 mice in my custom stuff.

And then to fill up the maze with random objects, so it didn't look so empty, I included (among a huge number of items) the original donkey and elephant shapes I made, for my Presidential Race level, and loading those up didn't have a huge effect either.

On the other hand, to quickly get the trophy for creating a level with 2-players, and the gauge over 30%, I loaded up my donkey vehicle from the racing level, and pasted that. Then I copied it, and after making about 10-12 of those, the thermometer was already nearly full.

So I'm completely confused. I used at least 6 different saved custom objects, and those had a negligible effect on the meter, and then another time I used 1 single object (the donkey car) a bunch of times, and that made the meter nearly overheat.

The only thing I can think of is that my maze level is huge, and the objects are spread out, whereas in the level I made just to get a trophy (and then deleted) I put the donkey cars fairly close to each other (I was copying and pasting them as quickly as I could). So MAYBE having a lot of custom stuff located in a small area is what creates the problem, because maybe the server strains to try load up all these random objects someone made and saved on their profile, as opposed to spacing them out (so there aren't more than a couple on the screen at a time). I have no idea.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by toefer

I have no idea.

Got it.

I know, me neither.

It's just unfortunate that I have soooo much room left and a lot of story to cover and only 1/4 of the themometer left to use.

Oh well,

I'll have to try your maze level, sounds fun.

(I keep meaning to send you a friend invite, but I keep forgetting).

[CYMBOL]

Anybody know how to "sync" emitters (2 seconds apart, etc)? I set the sync, and nothing changes. . .

[caliblue15]

Look who just got the Create Trophy!!!!

In only a couple of days woot!

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

Look who just got the Create Trophy!!!!

In only a couple of days woot!

Congrats! I'll get it sooner or later I'm sure. (At least, I hope so). Still need to get people to actually play my level - not sure how you get so many hits. I've republished a few times now, doesn't seem to be making a drastic difference.

Oh well, no big deal.

[toef]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

Look who just got the Create Trophy!!!!

In only a couple of days woot!

So are we done hearing about it?

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

It's just unfortunate that I have soooo much room left and a lot of story to cover and only 1/4 of the thermometer left to use.

I know what you mean. When making the maze level, I was worried I was going to fill up too much of the thermometer with just the maze, and not be able to set up the rest. You could obviously make a level by laying it all out in basic form first, so you know everything is there (characters, checkpoints, etc) and then flesh it out, but that just doesn't seem like a fun way to do it. If need-be, I could've scaled down my maze, but that would've been a bit depressing, because I spent quite a while drawing the entire thing out on graph paper, so that I could easily scale it up to size when making the level (each square of the graph paper I made equivalent to 9 squares -- 3 x 3 -- of the large grid size in LBP, and each line in the graph paper was 1 square of the large grid, so the 30x20 maze on graph paper turned into 121x81 squares in LBP...or something like that).

[caliblue15]

Yes you are done hearing it, I'm out to play 150 levels, and 100% prize bubbles.. I will drop in only to comment, and if i make new levels. No more whoring the thread..

[toef]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

Yes you are done hearing it, I'm out to play 150 levels, and 100% prize bubbles.. I will drop in only to comment, and if i make new levels. No more whoring the thread..

If you need any of the 2x or 4x prize bubbles, let me know, because I need all of the 4x, and a few of the 2x (the one where you have to stack up blocks and jump up I know for sure I need, maybe some others too).

Also, I just republished my levels, and saw that one is on Page 3 of the Cool Levels, so I'm wondering if I should just leave it there, or if it will disappear after a while. Not quite as great as a slot on Page 1, but it's something.