How to Build a Better LittleBigPlanet

December 15, 2008 | By: Grant Holzhauer

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What can you do to spruce up your LittleBigPlanet creations? We speak to Mark Healey, co-founder of Media Molecule, for advice.

Come Prepared

GameDaily: Is it better to start off with a vision of a level or to begin construction with a blank slate?

Mark Healey: Having some idea of what you want to make is always a good plan – you don't need to know all the details, they will come as you start making stuff, but at least some top level concept will help you make a level that feels focused. For example "it's going to have a huge tank," or "it will involve a big slippery descent." If you have no idea for a concept, then just messing around can spark off ideas.

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cobrakai62 at 7:47 pm on December 19th 2008

Okay disregard my last comment, the search has been improved from broken to just barely adequate (but still flawed). At least they're listening to the fans though.

tehaudpirate at 11:24 am on December 19th 2008

Any mod system and LBP... they're two different animals, regardless of the fact that you have the ability to create. Not to mention, Media Molecule touted creativity, and I don't think that making Mario levels is quite "creative", or any sort of loss to the community. For anyone that feels their level has been wrongfully moderated, they can go to the official forums and contact Sam_Protagonist to review and challenge it if it bothers them so much. And if you still want to make Mario/phallus/what have you levels, you can. Just don't publish them, and you can still bring your friends to see it.

uber1337dryad at 10:40 am on December 19th 2008

tehaudpirate: keep telling yourself that, champ. other games in the past with user-created mods haven't been moderated like LBP has. Media Molecule shot themselves in the foot when they started moderating levels. Wasn't LBP suppose to be all about doing whatever you want? Isn't that what everyone said? Look at Garry's Mod. There's a way to put Zero Suit Samus into the Half-Life 2 world. Are Valve moderating Garry's Mod because Zero Suit Samus is copyrighted by Nintendo? No, because Valve are not douchebags like Media Molecule.

tehaudpirate at 9:29 am on December 19th 2008

Klinks; It's called covering their butts by MODERATING (levels aren't deleted, hurdurrr) levels that are good griefed and contain objects that may infringe upon intellectual property that they don't have permission to use. Btw, they patched the search function AND the moderation system last ***ht. :]

cobrakai62 at 5:06 am on December 18th 2008

Yeah pretty cool advice, except that unless you promote your level on various forums it will never get played. I wanted a game not a part time job, avoid this game like the plague until they sort out the level browser.

klinks011 at 9:56 pm on December 16th 2008

The moderation in this game is bad. They deleted a level because a statue looked like pac-man. They did put it back up because the public didn't like what they did.