Thread: Little Big Pla-KAPOW!

After feeling blue as a bluejay in Fable Dos, I decided to play a bit more of my rather unplayed Little Big Planet...

Having not the option to create my own stages yet, I dropped it for some more Fable II - but recently, I have unlocked it and started to create some stages.

Blows my mind at how many things you can create in the game. I've played through a good handful of the Story stages, and I see the rather interesting and creative things you could make with them, but as I've figured out through my playthroughs - you can even create things that weren't "intended" for the game.
Not saying that I didn't know you could make your own creation, but I'm saying that there are literally some possibilities that didn't seem possible in this game unless you took a different approach at it~!
Hell, if I tried hard enough, I could even make a fully-controllable Metal Gear!

But that's far too advanced for me... I wanna' take it slow. I'm still just figuring out the beautiful architectual-designs I can make - as well as the nifty forms of transportation I can create ( bullet trains, here I come! ).

I know I can just borrow from the community... but you see... for a game like this...
I don't feel right about seeing, hearing, trying, copying, or taking other people's designs until I make something truly worthy that I can give back!

So far, the most intelligent design I've got made-down is a switch that drops down a person with information to give you. ...that and the ruins area that can actually full-on collapse, while still being fully-usable.

And the most intelligent design I've got drawn-down is the Final Boss fight... a giant moving enemy super-structure with enemies, traps, tunnels, and crawl spaces inside.

...it can't be a pretty design, has to be pretty clunky - seeing that intricate designs can't be too extravagant... then again, I could make separate parts of the structure, with them being connected through carvings (like jigsaw puzzle-connections)... Hmmmmm.... *notes that down in head*


So yeah, I've been playing it a whole bunch. Even lost a good night's sleep over it.
But I'm glad I played through more of it, it certainly is exciting.

I'm trying to balance out the use of mechanical-creativity, ambiance-creativity, and character-creativity throughout each of my stages.
If I go too far with one of those, I fear I may lose the "groove" I'm going in and just head off into a completely different direction.

Let's hope that doesn't happen.


So yeah... if any of you are playing LBP, don't expect to share with me anytime soon. I'm still trying to make something good enough to be shared.