Following a LittleBigPlanet press briefing, we had a chance to ask Media Molecule's Alex Evans about their participation in Sony's E3 2008 press conference. (In case you missed it, a LBP level was made for the company's power point slides. We've embedded video of the level above.) According to Evans, SCEA approached the dev two days before their press conference. They spent the first day making the level and the second day tweaking.
We're hoping this sets a precedent for all future press conferences. Rare, we're looking at you to show how Banjo can make Xbox sales data fun.
LittleBigPlanet dev made Sony presentation in 2 days for SCEA
by Ross Miller 
on Jul 16th 2008 6:15PM
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:18PM (Unverified) said
Yeah that presentation was great. Still I'm disappointed at how that was all Sony allowed them to show at the E3 press conference. Personally I didn't give a shit about Massive Generic Name action Game.
I wanted to hear more about this and Killzone 2.
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I wanted to hear more about this and Killzone 2.
Posted: Jul 21st 2008 4:05PM (Unverified) said
And AGAIN, Star Fox gets no love. Not one mention for a new one.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:19PM (Unverified) said
That took two days? Seems more a negative than a positive - it wasn't a complex level.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:33PM (Unverified) said
reviews, edits, revisions, data updates, signoff, refine, etc.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:02PM mrmobius said
But this was for a media event so it had to be pixel perfect and run extremely smoothly as well as look attractive. User generated stuff doesn't need to be. It's like the Mario levels where people design so Mario doesn't need to be moved to complete the level.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:28PM (Unverified) said
Do you really think he sat for 48 hours straight before the press conference?
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Posted: Jul 21st 2008 11:49PM The Man with a girls name said
Yea they should have had a part with PSP software sales, and included buzz saws...lots and lots of buzz saws...
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:24PM (Unverified) said
Or... how about we just skip the sales data at he press conferences? They could just do a handout and save a ton of time.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:27PM (Unverified) said
I doubt they would ever do that. Still LBP was an interesting twist to it. And the sackboy kept me entertained throughout.
What would have been sweet was if they did the entire conference through LBP, creating some really intricate levels.
And then only turned it off to show gameplay videos or trailers.
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What would have been sweet was if they did the entire conference through LBP, creating some really intricate levels.
And then only turned it off to show gameplay videos or trailers.
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:25PM (Unverified) said
that was the best part of all 3 of the big conferences.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:14PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
I agree with Jody.
Sony should do all their presentations in LBP!
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Sony should do all their presentations in LBP!
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:25PM (Unverified) said
Oh look, I must have ticked off a few Sony fanboys in the audience. Since they want to act childish, I'll repeat what I said.
The best part was the FF13 announcement.
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The best part was the FF13 announcement.
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:34PM (Unverified) said
I see 4myfriends is still wiping the spit off his face from the nintendo conference.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:49PM (Unverified) said
Most creative presentation at the show. This game is awesome.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 8:32PM (Unverified) said
"I see 4myfriends is still wiping the spit off his face from the nintendo conference."
I see you're doing shitty 4chan level trolling as usual.
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I see you're doing shitty 4chan level trolling as usual.
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 9:37PM (Unverified) said
4MyFriends accusing others of 4chan level trolling? OH the irony
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:34PM (Unverified) said
Anyone notice he said 5 BILLION rather than million units? LOL. He wishes. :)
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:54PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, I thought he said 5 billion when I was watching the live feed of E3, and this video confirms it XD
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:36PM (Unverified) said
Did anyone else notice he said 5 BILLION rather than million? LOL. He wishes. :)
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 6:57PM DougKaplan said
This absolutely did work. I wasn't home to watch this live so I watched it once the presentation was archived and for the first time in press conference history, I watched with excitement about sales charts, facts, and figures.
I am not a fan of Sony, I'm a Nintendo guy and I fast forwarded when Nintendo did the sales information but not Sony which means Sony did something right and I say good show to them for this awesome presentation tool.
I second Ross Miller when he said everyone should do their presentations this way!
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I am not a fan of Sony, I'm a Nintendo guy and I fast forwarded when Nintendo did the sales information but not Sony which means Sony did something right and I say good show to them for this awesome presentation tool.
I second Ross Miller when he said everyone should do their presentations this way!
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:20PM (Unverified) said
It made sitting and watching "the numbers" bearable. Very creative!
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 7:38PM (Unverified) said
That was a great presentation. It made the sales talk bearable while giving a neat demo of what LBP can do.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 8:09PM Supermanisdead said
Little Big Planet is the PS3 game I'm looking most forward too? What I want to know is if the sackboys can do more than jump and slap each other. It would be cool if they could actually fight bad guys, so I could create my own platformer.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2008 8:21PM (Unverified) said
Little Big Powerpoint.
But I'm still waiting to see exactly why it's being called a 'game'.
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But I'm still waiting to see exactly why it's being called a 'game'.
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 8:26PM aughscreennames said
This could possibly be the greatest game I have ever seen.
Too bad they didnt have sack boy present everything at the conference, that would have gone down in e3 history.
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Too bad they didnt have sack boy present everything at the conference, that would have gone down in e3 history.
Posted: Jul 16th 2008 9:20PM (Unverified) said
Way to bore the hell out of me with sales data.... I just wish that presentation was about LBP not figures.
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Posted: Jul 17th 2008 5:59AM (Unverified) said
this game looks finished to me OMG.. just release it already :(
anyway.. those sack boys are awesome lol.. they will always entertain you :)
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anyway.. those sack boys are awesome lol.. they will always entertain you :)
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