To celebrate the announcement of LittleBigPlanet 2, this week sees the arrival of the all new, and very colourful, LittleBigPlanet PlayGround space in PlayStation®Home.
In true LittleBigPlanet fashion, this space offers plenty to Play, Create and Share: Take part in the King’s “Snap Happy” Photo Challenge. Find the target, get the perfect shot, and you can win some great virtual rewards. It doesn’t stop there: team up with your friends to create your own wallpapers for the PS3 with the Creator mini-game!
Gather round Sackfolk, and listen up, we have something to show you – now sit down, take a deep breath, and look at this; it’s our brand new game, LittleBigPlanet 2!
It’s been a long time in the making, a lot of hush-hush and knowing winks, but we’re incredibly excited to be lifting the veil at last, and showing you what we’ve been up to for the last year or two. We simply can’t wait to tell you everything about it, there’s so many new tools and objects in here that will grant you ultimate creative power to build amazing things, not just vastly improved levels, but entire games too, you’ll see!
– Laura Dilloway, Artist
When Andy first handed this level over it was visualised a lot less clearly than the first two levels, and was literally made up of rubber blocks dictating where the floor and various objects should be! However the necessary parts of the level like the logic and basic landscape took up very little thermometer, and because of this we could pretty much go to town and add as many stickers, objects and materials as we wanted.
We really had a lot of fun doing the art for this level! This was made easier by the fact that there were only a couple of small design considerations that had to be taken into account. Firstly, that once you got into the pogostick there could be nothing in the back thick plane otherwise Sackboy would plane switch back out again (and where would the fun in that be?); and secondly that the pogostick worked better when the floor was rubber.
LittleBigPlanet has become a home to a fairly vast amount of extra downloadable content since launch, and we wanted to have a little party to celebrate just how awesome that was.
DLC for LittleBigPlanet has expanded the game in all directions, bringing new costumes, stickers, materials, music, levels, and toys to players and creators, enhancing the tools available for building levels, and so too enhancing the variety, quality, and abundance of player-made levels.
To mark the launch of LittleBigPlanet on PSP we’re releasing a second exclusive Rare T-Shirt for the PS3. As with the original launch T-Shirt this new rare will be available for one week only then never again so if you want to get your hands on it, you’d better be quick!
The T-Shirt will be available in North America from Today, and worldwide from November 26th priced at $4.99 / €4.99 / £3.99
On the PlayStation®Store and LittleBigStore today, the Turkey Head costume, available free for one week only to celebrate Thanksgiving. Get it whilst it’s hot!
Let’s all do a little dance, and then head on out to Play Create and Share Everywhere! LittleBigPlanet on PSP is released today in North America, tomorrow in Europe, and Friday in the UK and Ireland. Go! Run to the shops, the game awaits you there… unless you are in Europe, in which case you can stroll along leisurely and pick it up in a few days time.
Out today is a nifty set of fan-made levels, created by some of the Curators at LittleBigPlanet Central. The Logic Pack is a set of levels containing logic gates and tools aimed at bridging the gap between Creators who understand logic and those who don’t. We asked ConfusedCartman, one of the minds behind this excellent teaching tool, what this was all about…
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