LittleBigPlanet devs were making something 'more Portally than Portal'

by Justin McElroy { Sep 30th 2008 at 12:25PM }

Here's one to slide right between Thrill Kill and Earthosaur: The Terraforming Bike in the "Games We're Sad We'll Never See" file. LittleBigPlanet devs Media Molecule told Kikizo that, before they started work on their user-generated platformer with Sony, they had been crafting a game "more Portally than Portal ... Portal, but with scale factor."

As intriguing as the game sounds, we're more upset we'll never see if Media Molecule could have come up with other incrementally better things. Could they have made an AI more GLaDOSy than GLaDOS or a company more Aperture Sciencier than Aperture Science? We, of course, don't ask if there could be a songwriter more Jonathan Coultony than Jonathan Coulton, as that's a position handily filled by Jonathan CoulT-2000, an android currently in cold storage somewhere in New Mexico.

Duh.

Tags: littlebigplanet, media-molecule, portal

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Lone Starr @ Sep 30th 2008 12:31PM

LBP will be a good enough consolation in my opinion.

Raikage (Mr. ESC? Mr. ESC? MR. ESSSSSSCCCCCC!) @ Sep 30th 2008 12:57PM

Hopefully it's even half of what Portal is...

And that'll still put scores around 11/10 ;D

James @ Oct 1st 2008 1:18AM

mmm pie...

Dirty @ Sep 30th 2008 12:35PM

Media Molecule seems like they are full of great ideas.... execution is still up in the air.

The best part of portal was it's creative character.

Nevers @ Sep 30th 2008 2:44PM

I totally agree... Portal minus GLaDOS is a game I wouldn't enjoy.

Blank-Mage @ Oct 1st 2008 2:25PM

"Contact with the electrified fluid will result in an unsavory mark on your record, followed by death."

Heh @ Sep 30th 2008 12:41PM

Obligatory "This was a triumph." comment

WhatIsThatThing @ Sep 30th 2008 5:45PM

Obligatory "this fad is dead shut up" response post.

Jon2309 @ Sep 30th 2008 7:17PM

Obligitory lol.

WRE @ Sep 30th 2008 12:44PM

Before I wrote this comment I was working on a post even postier than this one.

themizarkshow @ Sep 30th 2008 12:48PM

I wonder how many Jonathan CoulT-2000's there are... maybe they could pull America out of this financial fiasco.

macgyver @ Sep 30th 2008 1:05PM

well i was working on a game that would have been more mario-ee than mario, more gearsy than gears of war and more metal geary than any of the metal gears!

come on, words without action are empty...and strangely reminiscent of all US politics.

aanidaani @ Sep 30th 2008 1:05PM

Scaling factor? Does that mean gigantic Companion Cubes?

Haggard (steam: haggard_dawn, PSN: HaggyWaggy) @ Sep 30th 2008 1:08PM

Seems a bit egotistical..

offday @ Sep 30th 2008 1:11PM

Who brags about something that they WERE making? That's about the most retarded thing I've ever read in my life. Also, to call this game you WERE working on more portally than portal is a stupid comment. Sorry, but no. No you weren't.

j.howlett @ Sep 30th 2008 8:43PM

peter molyneux?

JPN @ Sep 30th 2008 1:18PM

Saying you were working some something more "Portally" than Portal...gives me douche chills

a_roast_chicken @ Oct 1st 2008 12:05AM

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John @ Sep 30th 2008 1:22PM

I think that portal would not be portal without all it's parts.

even if they were making a game with portals that bent space like portal did, without the atmosphere it still wouldn't be portal. Don't forget Prey did the portaling thing before portal, and that game was garbage.

So while it very well may be they were making a game with mechanics similar to portal, there is no way it was even portalesque, let alone more portally than portal.

rTwelve @ Sep 30th 2008 1:22PM

"more Aperture Sciencier"

Wouldn't that be... Sciency?

343 Guilty Fart @ Sep 30th 2008 1:55PM

Didn't realize Joystiq was a fan of Thrill Kill Kult. Do you fear for your child?

dark_inchworm @ Sep 30th 2008 1:56PM

STRAIGHT OUTTA HELL

dark_inchworm @ Sep 30th 2008 1:55PM

Betcha didn't have anything more Narbaculary than Narbacular Drop, which was essentially the precursor to Portal development.

beeyotch!

Maverick Saturn @ Sep 30th 2008 2:17PM

MM, before you get your knickers in a muddle, I suggest you stick to the game you shot to fame with, LBP.

This other game you 'were' making is irrelavent now.

F1 @ Sep 30th 2008 2:19PM

Damn! I'm starting to think Little Big Planet is going a bit to they're heads! What's he going to say next? They can make a game more Half-Lifier than Half-Life!?

bvhj @ Sep 30th 2008 2:27PM

Why are people assuming MM were being big headed when they said that? They just implied it'd have more portals, they didn't say it was a better game :I

Slaziman @ Sep 30th 2008 2:34PM

Reading this made me cringe, MM are douches.

Ignatius @ Sep 30th 2008 2:36PM

Am I Portally enough for the Portal club?

F1 @ Sep 30th 2008 2:47PM

+1 for the Master of Disguise refrence!

Comet @ Oct 3rd 2008 10:29AM

Really? I would say -5 points.

j.howlett @ Sep 30th 2008 2:37PM

was it minimalist style game play that dealt with changing the size of things.

PojoMofo @ Sep 30th 2008 2:38PM

LBP????? and Portal????? together????? yes please!!!

jesse gomer @ Sep 30th 2008 2:42PM

can you imagine sackboy singing still alive?

Brent @ Sep 30th 2008 2:54PM

Add portals to LBP and I'll make the most portaliest game ever.

Divine Dirtclod @ Sep 30th 2008 2:58PM

Floaty jumps are a triumph...

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peepoop @ Sep 30th 2008 3:17PM

I was working on a perpetual motion machine before becoming a graphic designer. Just so you know.

peepoop @ Sep 30th 2008 3:20PM

By the way, I'm still not buying into the LBP hype.

antsmarching @ Sep 30th 2008 3:38PM

fake cakier?

antsmarching @ Sep 30th 2008 3:39PM

fake cakier?

antsmarching @ Sep 30th 2008 3:39PM

ah balls

Dirty @ Sep 30th 2008 5:15PM

I cant stop laughing at your comments. Your original comments was so bad it wasn't worth posting once, yet the double posting somehow made it hilarious. Then the ah balls, and I cant stop loling.

Wroth @ Sep 30th 2008 4:18PM

Media Molecule are ex-lionhead devs.

They're probably talking about this:

The Room.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiPUx9Zgi0

Zoesch @ Sep 30th 2008 4:48PM

Most likely or something derived from that concept.

Errr, could you please stop being sensible? The fanboys above are raging and facts have no place on this thread :)