LittleBigPlanet – Over 3 Million Community Levels!

[Stephie_is_a_dork]

no...in fact I have 5 whole spots open now. almost half of the people remaining are from Blu-ray.com, since I actually talk to you guys more often.

[groovyone]

We are an addictive group.

[Shin-Ra]

This Week on PlayStation.Blog

Good Monday morning! (that’s really easy to say when you’re still sleeping). Here’s what we’re working on for you this week:

• LittleBigPlanet receives “The Patch”
• inFamous goes to the movies
• More zombies shambling toward PSN
• More R2 DLC en route
• Xi in the real world (not The Real World, thankfully)

Dun-dun-DUUUUUN!

[kx11]

it's monday night here ^_^

[Ukujiku]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

This Week on PlayStation.Blog

• LittleBigPlanet receives “The Patch”

Dun-dun-DUUUUUN!

So, LittleBigPlanet is quitting smoking? Well, that's great.

[Shin-Ra]

Get out your holy water, silver bullets and cricket bats! Here come the Monsters!

This Thursday, a gang of ghoulish fiends will crawl out from their various spooky hideouts and burst onto the PSN store. The Monsters come as two downloadable content packs; a four strong set of costumes, and a Monsters creator kit so stuffed full of new stickers, objects, music, sounds, and materials that the hessian seams are sure to burst from the strain of it. The kit also contains a gallery level, a level with very limited gameplay made with all the new items to show them off!

Check out the trailer below to see the pack in action!

[trailer]

May 21st : Monster Costume Pack : $2.99 / €2.99

To accompany the Monsters Kit come four fangtastic costumes that are sure to entertain. These costumes are also available individually for $0.99 each.

• Sackula costume : Count Sackula hair, Count Sackula legs, Count Sackula jacket and cloak
• Bride of Sackula costume : Bride of Sackula hair, Bride of Sackula legs, Bride of Sackula dress, Bride of Sackula cloak
• Werewolf : Werewolf head, Werewolf torso, Werewolf tail, Werewolf trousers
• Zombie : Zombie torso, Zombie legs, Zombie skin

The costumes are also available individually for $0.99 / €0.99.

May 21st : Monsters Kit : $3.99 / €3.99

The Monsters Kit arrives and is the first of a new kind of content pack we’ve got heading your way in the coming months.
Described broadly as a Medium pack, the Monsters Kit contains a large amount of creative goodness for you to use in your own level designs. It also includes a gallery level showing off the contents of the kit.

• Ready made pieces : Rotary Saw, Mannequin Head, Mannequin Legs, Mannequin Torso
• Primative material : Orange fabric, fish scales, reptile skin, eggshell, Chesterfield
• 26 Monster decorations including witch nose, tentacles, splat, rusty nail and much more
• 96 Monster theme stickers
• Horror sounds : A goodly number of suitably grim sounds to help with your creations.
• Music : “Party Ghouls’ Music” (interactive track)

[KJH6926]

awesome!!!!!

[Shin-Ra]

LBP Originals on THE PATCH

As most of you know, we’ve been spending the past few months touring and showing LittleBigPlanet at various promotional events. We’ve had the pleasure to meet a wide variety of great personalities from artists, to athletes, to musicians and allowed them to get their hands on LBP Create tools. Some provided great inspiration, some were extremely hands on, and in the end we came up with some great creations together, levels that in one way or another say something about what they are about. This Friday, you’ll be able to go online in LittleBigPlanet and check out a new hot spot destination on called “the patch”.

On “the patch” you’ll find LBP Original levels created by inspiring individuals and interesting personalities. For our first showcase, we are spotlighting Joe Vaux, Sarah Burke, and Nathan Cabrera. Throughout the week, you’ll hear from several of them and their own experiences creating their LBP Original, so stay tuned the rest of the week and find out what other personalities you’ll find on “the patch”.

[CYMBOL]

The Monster Pack looks like fun - I'll probably pick up the Creator Portion - "The Patch" doesn't sound interesting at all, but I'll check it out with an open mind.

Not sure if/when I'll make an another level - I was actually considering, fine tuning the levels I've already done - and then republishing. I'm not sure if I'm up to a month's worth of work, but it might be fun to revisit some of my early levels and make them a little more user friendly.

Just not sure yet. . .

[Xerios]

they could do this forever.. make patches i mean.. i love it!

[fsavoie]

Originally Posted by Xerios

they could do this forever.. make patches i mean.. i love it!

I'm not sure I understand... celebrities will create levels that will be available in a section called "patch"?

[Shin-Ra]

"LBP levels coming"
"Ratchet & Clank content done, coming soon hopefully"
"Up next for Media Molecule: big pack, bigger than MGS"

replies from @mmalex, lbp levels coming, r&c content done, coming soon hopefully, up next for mm, big pack, bigger than mgs even.

http://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1849951486

LittleBigPlanet “The Patch” - Family Guy’s Joe Vaux
Posted by Joe Vaux // Animator

I had been working with my friends Ken and Tonny over at Von Dutch and Planet Illogica for about a year. These two are looking for ways to use their skills and connections to help artists market themselves to a broader audience. Early this year I got the call from Ken to come down and meet the folks of PlayStation and design a LittleBigPlanet level. A day or two later I was sitting at the Von Dutch office in front of flat screen TV with Leo, the guy who produced LittleBigPlanet, gawking at this amazing game.

[video]

Leo led me through a basic tour of the game’s potential. I could tell it was just the tip of the iceberg. While other artists around me worked away on their levels with a PS representative, I felt like I needed some time to let what I had seen sink into my thick skull. That night I sat down with pen and paper and sketched out a schematic for what would become the Joe Vaux level. The next day I cruised over at lunch to present my drawing to Leo. He seemed inspired. Knowing I needed to get back to work, Leo took the drawing and began the construction.

A couple of weeks went by and I get and email from KG. “Have you seen your level?” he asks. Then he iChats some stills from the world I designed. My jaw hit the floor. Now I have to admit, I’m not much of a gamer. I just don’t have time between being a father, an assistant director on Family Guy and a painter. But, if I did have time I would eat this game for breakfast, lunch and dinner. What a blast to design and build your own game. Kudos to PS!

To the fans of PS and LittleBigPlanet: Don’t judge me, enjoy and bask in the ability to create and share with the magic of this fantastic game. Thanks to all the the great people at PlayStation (Katie, Ginger, Leo and Jeff) and to Ken Goldstein and Tonny S. for presenting this great opportunity. You guys Rock!!!

[Rike255]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

"Up next for Media Molecule: big pack, bigger than MGS"

NO WAI!

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Looks good! The Werewolf costume looks nice.

[Stephie_is_a_dork]

wait...so this guy sketched a level, handed it off the the Media Molecule dudes, and THEY created it for him?

...

BFD!

[saprano]

Yeah.

BDF?

[Simplayer]

Originally Posted by saprano

Yeah.

BDF?

Big F'ing Deal I assume.

[Simplayer]

Originally Posted by Rike255

NO WAI!

I hope it's the FF theme pack.

[Stephie_is_a_dork]

Originally Posted by saprano

Yeah.

BDF?

Originally Posted by Simplayer

Big F'ing Deal I assume.

correct

[t0nythebeat]

Question people ...

Why is that on certain levels when I finish it displays my PS3 "nickname" and on others it displays my PSN sn?