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So today I was at the Edinburgh Interactive Festivals and there was 4 booths of LBP goodness where you could play.

I stood and watched as one of the graphic designers from Media Molecule showed me around the games features. He firstly showed me how to customize your Sackboy, there is so many options here.. Hair..face..eyes..mouth..nose..feet honestly you can change anything on your Sackboy, he turned Sackboy into this paper thin post-it note kind of thing, it was the first time I'd seen that so it was pretty cool. Also there was the helghast costume and the kratos one!!

Anyway then I asked if I could get hands on with the game, I jumped into a blank level to see how it felt to create objects in the game. I played around a bit with the diffirent materials and they really all do have diffirent physical properties, its easy to drag bubblewrap but try and drag a big block of wood and you'll need a friend to jump in and help.

Its really easy to scale things and move them around you use the right analouge stick to scale and move your objects.

The stickers are so much fun, there was loads to play with but the dev I was talking to said they had to limit the amout they came with as the build was being read from a memory card. I used the pseye to take a picture of my face and stick it on a robots face we made, the level of detail you can go into when making a machine is amazing, you can use diffirent types of cogs and connecters and change the strength and speed of the cogs as you wish. I made a little car with beer tops as wheels, it wasn't to smooth!

I then decided to jump into an earlier made level and give it a try. There are only 3 buttons you control, X to jump Left analoge to move, and R1 to grab ,pull ect....

It's really easy to get to grips with Sackboy, for example you hold down X for longer to get a longer jump, there is also diffirent depths to the game, you can bring stuff forwards and backwards you jump between these by pressing down on the stick then jumping.

I was playing co-op with a friend and we had to get on a jet-pack and collect lemons and drag them up to a canope which was connected to a pulee system, once we had enough weight on the canope, a door opned so we could continue the level. We were then confronted by ghosts that would bob up and down, there was platforms you had to go up so you can access a button which kills the ghosts, the platforms were too high for us to jump onto so we had to work together to pull a box so we could use that as a stepping block. All the way through the level we were collecting sponge to get our score up.

There is honestly to much to mention about this game, I was truley blown away. I felt before playing the game that I would not create that much levels but after trying it out it is so easy and so much fun. I think that loads of practice will make anybody into a great level designer.

Its a blast to play too, it is not super easy and often requires logic to be used and some parts took me a few trys.

Everybody present was really impressed by this game, this will be huge.

Heres some pics I took (they are from my phone so not the best quality)

(images fixed. Thanks so much for the preview! LBP)

http://i37.tinypic.com/2s0e9ab.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/2dloks6.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/2ik8b3n.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/jaungw.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/2lw3bte.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/141vcki.jpg

I also picked up some cool LBP badges and T-shirt transfers!!

http://i36.tinypic.com/5b5hkx.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/2h4e0jo.jpg

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask!!

2008-08-11 03:44:00

Author:
jamieson87

Posts: 1

Nice! There was actually information that I didn't know before, thanks!!

Also, the pictures do not work.

2008-08-11 03:47:00

Author:
Unknown User

Sounds awesome, and thanks for sharing! The pics dont seem to be working though?

2008-08-11 03:47:00

Author:
DrunkMiffy

Posts: 2758

Nice hands on! It's good to know someone else has played the game, although I didn't see anything new except for the "post-it note" thing(which I don't fully understand). Good work!

2008-08-11 03:48:00

Author:
ConfusedCartman

Posts: 3729

I am guessing the post-it-note costume makes your Sackboy 2D??

That is the image I got in my mind anyways.

If that is true, that is awesome!!

2008-08-11 03:52:00

Author:
Unknown User

I already got ideas for the 2D sackboy!

2008-08-11 05:58:00

Author:
Jack

Posts: 999

thats awesome! i wish i could pick up some lbp swag, i really want some stuff! if any one goes to a show, and manages to get away with some extra stuff, don't hesitate to talk to me, i'd love you forever...

and that hands on sounded really cool, and i dident know there was bubble wrap, that sounds really useful, but honestly, i don't think i want to play a hands on or even play the beta or demo, i don't wanna spoil my appetite for building levels, and paying the game...

2008-08-11 06:23:00

Author:
big93

Posts: 262

Thank you! If you could fix the images, that would be great! I would like to see your swag!

You didn't happen no notice or hear anything ground-breakingly new?

2008-08-11 07:19:00

Author:
Maltay

Posts: 2073

Like for example 3D camera angles...xD only kidding!

But yeah, great read man! Fixing the images would be cool! =D

2008-08-11 07:25:00

Author:
Stix489

Posts: 2080

Sounds awesome.. and the limit on the stickers was pretty obvious.. There was no way you could put up a million without getting problems

2008-08-11 07:41:00

Author:
Kaiwa

Posts: 5

Sounds awesome.. and the limit on the stickers was pretty obvious.. There was no way you could put up a million without getting problems

He says/means that the stickers on the build of littlebigplanet were limited, and doesn't reflect how many will be in the full version

(I think - Correct me if Im wrong)

2008-08-11 07:56:00

Author:
Maltay

Posts: 2073

This is great to hear. But it sucks a bit that there isn't a hands-on event here in the Netherlands :S

2008-08-11 10:20:00

Author:
OverZee

Posts: 245

Thanks for this - it's brilliant! Would love it if you got those pics working

EDIT: Because it's your first post... i took a wild guess and did some researching... and my assumption was correct!!!

go here: http://tinyurl.com/5zpc37
for the pics

2008-08-11 13:32:00

Author:
ryryryan

Posts: 3767

Thanks for this - it's brilliant! Would love it if you got those pics working

EDIT: Because it's your first post... i took a wild guess and did some researching... and my assumption was correct!!!

go here: http://tinyurl.com/5zpc37
for the pics

Nice, brains on you!

Some pretty cool pictures, I especialy like the last t-shirt transfer.

2008-08-11 14:36:00

Author:
Maltay

Posts: 2073

Send me a badge please

2008-08-11 14:48:00

Author:
DrunkMiffy

Posts: 2758

Great preview! Good to see how easily you can create and interact with things! Well done. :kz:

LBP

2008-08-11 15:08:00

Author:
lbp

Posts: 423

Sounds like you had a great hands on. I wish I was up north at the time.

Is there any events heading to the south? Eg. London?

2008-08-11 15:54:00

Author:
mattygibbard

Posts: 23

I want LBP swaggggggg......:eek:

2008-08-11 17:35:00

Author:
Noonian

Posts: 523

Ok two questions...

can you make a list of all the controls?

and

did they explain how the balloon thing works? do you control it or is it controlled by fans that are pre-set in the level?

2008-08-11 20:42:00

Author:
12454522412412

Posts: 779

Ok two questions...

can you make a list of all the controls?

and

did they explain how the balloon thing works? do you control it or is it controlled by fans that are pre-set in the level?

https://lbpcentral.lbp-hub.com/index.php?t=t=536

2008-08-11 20:45:00

Author:
OverZee

Posts: 245

How do you get invited to these special events? How do you find out if an even like this is coming to your town? I always see people going to these things but I could never figure out how they found out about it. My guess is only people in the biz get invited.

2008-08-11 21:17:00

Author:
Xtrios

Posts: 6

2008-08-11 21:32:00

Author:
Maltay

Posts: 2073

He says/means that the stickers on the build of littlebigplanet were limited, and doesn't reflect how many will be in the full version

(I think - Correct me if Im wrong)

That's how I understood it. That particular build was on a *memory card* (probably SD card) and so, space was limited.

Excellent read, and pics. Welcome to the forum and thanks for the info

2008-08-11 22:21:00

Author:
1000101

Posts: 192

i thought alex evans said that there would be an unlimited number of stickers that you would be able to place in a level...

and somewhere on the internet, there is a lbp site also with the full controlls of lbp, and i gives you diagrams, like x, and what it does...

p.s i'm ****** that theres no tours or such near me, here in nj, that's so dumb! and i cant go to cali for all the comicons and stuff... i'm guessing i'm stuck till i get the game, or get in the beta...

2008-08-12 00:34:00

Author:
big93

Posts: 262

man i hope they put a demo on psn soon!

2008-08-12 00:54:00

Author:
Sackboy

Posts: 164

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