LittleBigPlanet General #1
Afternoon Tea with the Molecules: David Smith
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| <img src="http://www.mediamolecule.com/images/uploads/dave-blob.jpg" alt="Oooooh!" width="300" height="300" class="floatright"/>This is the first of what could become a whole series of things, how exciting is that?! We thought it might be nice for you to meet some of the molecules and get to know them better, find out what they do at Mm, and what other weird and wonderful things they get up to in what spare time we let them have. To help us do that we?ve drafted in our super-duper studio assistant <a href="http://www.mediamolecule.com/about/whos_who/#Daisy" title="">Daisy</a>, everyone wave and say ?Hello Daisy!? So what is all this cake nonsense then? Well, Daisy invited <a href="http://www.mediamolecule.com/about/whos_who/#Dave" title="">Dave</a>, one of Mm’s original founders, for a cup of tea and a slice of nice cake. Whilst he was off guard, we asked him all about his work on LittleBigPlanet, and all about the other things he likes to do - this is what happened? We lured Dave in with a pot of tea and an exciting looking cake box from the local patisserie. Once we were comfortably installed in a big pile of bean bags, the tea was poured, the cakes revealed, the questions began. We wanted to find out more about what Dave was all about? Tell us what you do Dave. ?I make dreams come true.? Dave claims boldly. It's not too far from the truth but not the answer we?re looking for. ?Whenever I?m asked about my job role, I always end up giving these long irritating diatribes about all the things that I do, and so I, I just make games! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediamolecule/5189539380/in/photostream/" title="Flickr"><img src="http://www.mediamolecule.com/images/uploads/dave-tea.jpg" alt="Oooooh!" width="350" height="525" class="floatleft" /></a> When Media molecule was founded, there were a key set of skills amongst the founders: Kareem was art, Siobhan a producer, Mark was an artist but mainly a designer, which left Dave and Alex, who were both programmers. But programmers can be wildly different from one to the next, so where was the divide? ?Well, there?s kind of this weird overlap between the directors. From the outside, the strongest art side is Kareem and Mark, the strongest technical side, is me and Alex and then the strongest game design side, is me and Mark. you could draw some kind of awesome diagram I?m sure. That gives you a good idea of where I fit into things. ?I think that the thing I really bring to the team, or at least when we started with LittleBigPlanet, and we were coming up with the initial ideas, I was the person who came up with the initial prototypes, and you know, invented various bits of physics things and character handling, and fit lots of these ideas together.? ?At least, that?s my point of view. I think, the other guys on the team have different ways of looking at the genesis of LBP that describes it in terms of what they were doing? And so naturally I describe it in terms of what was happening to me. So basically. I did everything. LittleBigPlanet was my invention.? ------------------------- "Afternoon Tea with the Molecules: David Smith" is an automatically posted news item which was grabbed from MediaMolecule.com (www.mediamolecule.com). The original article can be found here (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MediaMoleculeBlog/~3/Wf8oUs5bJQY/). | 2010-11-19 14:40:00 Author: Spaff_Molecule  Posts: 421 |
| It's really interesting to read such an entertaining way the work of one of the creators of Little Big Planet. It is certainly a dream come true that has cost an immense effort of work in which many people are involved so that they have failed to meet our best wishes in a video game. Thanks Spaff Molecule for this thread  | 2010-11-19 14:49:00 Author: psyntens  Posts: 562 |
| I'm taking A level Art & Maths. People give me funny looks when I tell them. But I think that they go well together too! (I can't crochet but I'm good at screen prints!) Looking forward to more of these, they're a great read. | 2010-11-21 18:10:00 Author: Jedi_1993  Posts: 1518 |
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