Media Molecule has launched its online "LittleBigWorkshop," a collection of online tools designed to help LittleBigPlanet level designers with their creations.
The workshop is broken up into three parts. The "Workshop" room houses videos of creations, along with author notes. The "Inspiration Room" is a series of images to help jog your brain into creativity. And finally, the Blueprint Room is a tool which can be used to sketch out potential level designg by dragging and dropping shapes.
I've had LittleBigPlanet in hand since before it hit shelves, but I have to admit I haven't spent much time with it. For sure, it's a highlight of this holiday line-up (for any console); I just haven't had time for the game, much less to spend time building a level.
Has anyone been messing with LBP level design, and do you find these online tools to be helpful? If not, what would be helpful for you?
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10:45 AM on 11.04.2008
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For every hour I actually play the game, I spend three working on my own levels. I had no idea I would be that into content creation!
As for the actual LBP level designing itself, unfortunately I haven't really done too much work on my levels. I've been hooked on Fable II, and I've still got Fallout and Gears to get into, but I think I'm going to jump back into LBP before I start those last two up. I did a bunch of the "story" and all of the tutorials in LBP, but I got crazy-addicted to unlocking items and was putting off getting too much deeper into the actual creating portion. I'll remedy that soon...
I'm currently working on remaking everything with the full (and hopefully stable) version.
Oh, and the blueprint thing looks cool for inspiration but nothing beats pencil and paper for jotting down ideas.
Even if you don't think you'll want to make a level, you definately should check out the tools and do the tutorials - by the time you get all the tutorial trophies, you might find yourself inspired. Oddly enough, I did.
I'm seeing inspiration everywhere for some interesting levels, I was watching Apocalyptica the other day and I've decided to make a level based on it. It's gonna be the goriest, heart yank-enest level ever!