Community Levels
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Access the LittleBigPlanet community, the levels other sack folk have lovingly constructed. You can search for something very particular or, if you’re not fussy, dive straight in to a game with a bunch of other happy gadders.
There are over a million community published levels on LittleBigPlanet, and with a level added roughly every 30 seconds it more than you could ever possibly play, unless you flew around the sun backwards and travelled into the past every now and again to catch up.
Because there are so many levels, browsing them to find good things can often be overwhelming. This is why we’ve compiled this section of the website – it’s all about finding the good things; where to look, and how!
Finding levels from In-game
Cool levels
Selecting Community from the main menu is the first step you should take to finding cool community levels. You’re going to need an internet connection for this to work of course, that’s actually the first step, but let’s assume you have all that kind of guff sorted out already shall we?.
You are now looking at the LittleBigPlanet, and all the wonderful possibilities that it presents to you. In front of you are the current cool levels, the ones that have bubbled to the front page using an algorithm so staggeringly complex, that we hired it to manage our finances.
Browsing
Look at all those badges.... each one of these levels was made by another you, that is, another Creator Curator. You can browse the world just like you would in Story Mode, but with the added option of delving deeper into the cool levels by pressing 
or 
to change the page.
Once you’ve found a level that looks great, just press 
and you’ll be gadding about in no time.
But how does one decide which levels look great? Let’s see....
Star Ratings
When you complete a level, you are given the chance to rate it between one and five stars. Using this system, it is easy to find levels which are highly regarded by other denizens of LittleBigPlanet, all you have to do is look for levels with a high star rating. The more plays it has whilst still having a high star rating, the more likely it is to be great. Similarly, something rated badly with only a handful of plays might not be as bad as it seems!
Tags
Tags are useful. With tags we can associate a word with a level, and attempt to give it a genre. Was the level , maybe it was full of , or a . Whatever the level was, there’s a tag for it somewhere in this list.
Search
If you’ve heard of a really cool level, or just played one once and forgot to heart it, and now can’t find it, then don’t fret! You can search for it using the handy search option next to the Community option in the main menu. Here you can search for the following things:
- Search Text – search for text in the level name, description or creator name.
- Search Tags – search by Tag
- Highest Rated – the levels with the highest ratings
- Most Hearted – the levels with the highest number of hearts
- Newest Levels – the more recent levels to appear on the LittleBigPlanet
- Busiest – the levels with the most players currently playing them
Search Text
The Search Text option allows you to type in some words and search the LittleBigPlanet for levels, just like you could search the internet for a cheese emporium or something of that ilk. Like the internet, there are special search terms you can use to refine your search and better help you find the things you were looking for...
Search everything
Just enter some text and hit search and your POD will search far and wide for all levels containing your text – and it will look at level names, level descriptions and creator names.
Search for a Creator
Putting @ before your search words will restrict the search to looking at creator names. For instance type @LittleXim to look for levels by LittleXim
Search for words in Level Title only
To search for words in Level Title only, put a $ in front of the search word . For example, to search for levels with ‘ramp’ in the Level Title type: $ramp
Search for exact words
To search for exact words, use single quotation marks, like this: ‘ramp’
So this would look for only ramp. Not ram, ranp, rampy or Peter Frampton
Search for phrases only
To search by phrase, say, ‘The Mighty Tower of Ultimate Doom’, use double quotes, like this:
“The Mighty Tower of Ultimate Doom”
This will search only the Level Title and Level Description for exactly that phrase.
Combine Searches
You can also combine these searches for great justice.
