When you come back to the studio after being away on holiday for a week or so, you expect your chair or keyboard to have been been stolen by someone, and for your desk to be taken over by someone else. What I didn’t expect was for my monitor to be covered in a zillion post-it notes all with copies of the same doodle on…

The original was a doodle by Rex I planned to use in a found art piece, but just before I went away, Michelle decided to absentmindedly stamp some graffiti over it it whilst hovering over my desk chatting. The Bonnets doodle was ruined… kind of.

Whist I went away however, Michelle and her gang of ninja doodlers clubbed together to reproduce the picture a billion times, more than making up for the act of vandalism in the first place… Yay for Michelle, and yay for bonnets!

As you probably realised, we’re really quite busy making our new super-exciting game, LittleBigPlanet 2. We’ve been so busy making it in fact, that we just noticed we could do with some more help! So come help us!
Don’t all rush at once though - specifically, we need a Motion Graphics and Video Editing wizard. Yes, that’s right - WIZARD. Of the freelance variety.

A freelance Motion Graphics and Video Editing Wizard.

We need you to look like do this:

So please, come and help us make LittleBigPlanet 2, we’d love you to!

* Ok, so you don’t have to be an actual wizard. However could all wizards please check our other vacancies

Did you know that the King of awesome himself; the one and only Stephen Fry, will be returning as the narrator in LittleBigPlanet 2?

Yesterday was the second time that we managed to trap him inside a recording studio, where we asked him very kindly to read words into a microphone for us. Kenny, Martin and Jonny were there to orchestrate it, and we can’t wait to hear the results!

All these post it notes and more can be found littering the various monitors and TVs around the studio.

I’m not 100% sure who the creators of these little drawings are, but I have a feeling the Kitty Mew Mew is by Costa, the Noob Man by Tom and the Hand Face Man by Victor.

The friendly folk from the PlayStation blog popped into our new studio last weekend and recorded an interview with Mark and Alex. They discuss all things LittleBigPlanet 2, and even how one of our QA guys made his own Popit with the new tools, crazeee town.

Over on Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, there’s a rather in depth technical jargon filled interview with your friend and mine, Alex Evans. And when I say Jargon filled, i mean it.

I hate anything, as a matter of taste, that operates at the ‘per object’ level, or has arbitrary limits like ‘oh you can have two hero lights and then the rest is baked into an SH probe’ or ‘oh we’ll just lightmap everything’.

If you speak Alex Evans, then why not head over and read the full interview!

Now we’re all settled in our new digs, we need to finish making a video game. In order to do so though, we are missing two vital Molecules, a Network Programmer and a Production Server Developer.

We really, really, really need you. Let’s not beat about the bush here: we’re pretty desperate.

If you are one of these awesome types of people, you should seriously consider joining us at Mm Towers, and becoming a Molecule, here’s just a small selection of the reasons why!

• You’ll be an integral part of a small team with a family vibe.
• Our new studio is really awesome and there’s a desk here with your name on it. Oh you don’t like that one? That’s fine we can move it somewhere else, it’s all good!
• We have a tip top benefits package that is bound to make your life better in oh so many ways
• We already love you to bits, and all want to be your friend
• The freezer is full of ice creams, your favourite ones

Go on, join the Molecule!

Aaaand we’re back - now safely housed in the new improved Mm Towers, and loving it. We’ve gathered together a selection of moving photos, of the old office and the new, and we’ll shove a few more up over the course of the week no doubt. So if you’re interested to see what happens when you pack a whole dev studio into bubble wrap and move it up the road, you are in luck!

As you may have heard, we’ve been moving office this weekend to a shiny new studio five minutes up the road, and what a move! We left the old place on Friday with all our stuff in, and walked into the new studio today to find everything set up and working - great news for a team of folk with a game to build! The kitchen is even stocked up with all the foods we love to fuel ourselves on… yes, that’s right, there’s ice cream.

Our beloved Molecules Paul and Daisy are the ones responsible for this feat. They worked tirelessly throughout the long bank holiday weekend to assure a smooth transition, late nights and early mornings whilst (nearly) everyone else relaxed in the sun with their iPads. Thank you guys, you are our heroes!

Yesterday the office was in the throws of chaos, crates being filled up with stuff, everyone getting ready to move office. Right in the midst of this chaos,  a delivery man arrived at the door with an exciting package for Alex. iPad!

Watch in wonder as Alex unboxes his iPad, and marvel at how within a mere 5 minutes,  Rex has come to draw on it.