We’d like to introduce you all to a new member of the LittleBigPlanet family, United Front Games and the new project they’re leading on, LittleBigPlanet Karting!

The PlayStation Blog has a full announce article up, with some messages from us, and from the fab team at UFG, and a wizzy launch trailer too, ooh shiny.

It has really been a joy to collaborate with all of the folks at Mm. Since the project’s inception, they have been great partners in getting to where we are today. Looking ahead, we can’t wait for all of the LBP fans out there to get their hands on LittleBigPlanet Karting. The LBP community is unparalleled in the gaming world for the passion and creativity they bring and it’s going to be very exciting to see where they’re able to take this new journey for Sackboy.

Our goal with LBP Karting has been fairly simple – provide a fast-paced experience that captures the best of classic Karting gameplay, married with the unbridled creativity of LBP. This new adventure will be accessible to players of all ages and have all of the variety necessary to satisfy both the hardcore and more casual players.

Head on over to the PlayStation Blog to hear more about the project, and watch the snazzy video!

Break out the bubbly and dance on the tables! At least that’s what we’re doing this week after LittleBigPlanet 2 picked up two awards at this years BAFTA Video Game Awards Ceremony.

A small gang of molecules poshed themselves up in frocks and bow ties last Friday to attend this year’s ceremony, where we were nominated for a whopping six awards. We picked up two of those, one for Family game of the Year, the other for Innovation in games, and we’re very proud of them indeed!  Here they are looking all spangly…

Watch Mark, Dave and our Sony Producer Pete pick up the awards, and listen to their obviously very well prepared and historically important acceptance speeches in these fine BAFTA videos.

Family Game of the Year 2012

Game Innovation 2012

It only seems right to finish this blog post with another acceptance speech, or rather an extended thank you to you guys, a terrific community who have made LittleBigPlanet the amazing game it is. We’re fairly sure that in coming years it will be some of you folks picking up awards like this for your own creations, but for now thank you sooo, so much for helping to fill our game with wondrous creations, and fun people to play them with!

Whilst we’re doing speechy type things, we’d also like to offer a very big congratulations to all our friends and peers who were nominated or won awards this year: Good job games people! <3

Behold yee the winner and honourable mentions of the recent Move Masterpiece contest over on the LittleBigWorkshop forums.

All of these wonderful meisterworks were made with the Move Paint tool from the LBP2 Move pack, look at them shine and sparkle with their pixelated inks!

The Winner

September Girl By natuhito

Although there was much deliberation, there’s no denying that September Girl was our favourite Move Masterpiece entry!
We saw plenty of Sackboy and Sackgirl paintings but what really caught our eye with this particular painting was the way that natuhito had managed to capture pure human emotion and expression into the portrait.
The level of detail involved is simply superb with such an incredible amount of detail and attention put into ensuring that the painting is suitably symmetrical for a human being and that the shadowing and lighting across the whole piece was spot on to help truly bring the painting to life!

Honourable mentions

Alice In Zombieland By Foreva-Dead

London’s Burning By Olmco

Lone Wolf By Haymurus

Scribbled Scenery By Slapp-Me-Do

Starry Night By RedJackal1

The Little Elf By Konfedia

The Thinking Creator By Crasher360

Tree of Hope By BloodSynlol

Since the launch of the Move Pack, all you Sackboys and Sackgirls have been busy beavering away with the new tools, and making all sorts of cool new things. One of those new tools is Move Paint, a tool that turns the Move controller into a digital paintbrush, allowing you to create your own stickers, textures and in combination with the Sticker Panel, animations.

The video below highlights some of the incredible creations made for the Move Madness contest over on the official LBP forums... it’s a must see.

Wow. You lot are so super creative, even your pumpkins are awesome. Thanks to everyone who sent us in their spooky halloween self carved mega pumpkins this year, here’s a selection of them to gaze at. If you made a LittleBigPlanet or Mm themed pumpkin then please post it in the comments so we can see it!

There’s still time to vote for the Golden Joystick awards, where LittleBigPlanet 2 is up against some very tough competition to win an Action / Adventure award!

If you had a few seconds spare, we’d be very happy indeed if you could spend them voting for us! Thank you. <3

Just a couple weeks ago, we held our annual LittleBigPlanet Fan Meet at the Eurogamer Expo in London. A handful of Molecules, dressed in pink stripes and wearing big grins, attended the show, met with fans who exchanged their fan art for exclusive T-shirts, and gave them the chance to earn special in-game pins.

Thanks to our friends at PlayStation, we were able to take over their PlayStation Access area for the afternoon. After getting their hands on their shirts (and giving Alex Evans a high-five), the eager line of fans bundled inside the room, and we held an expanded developer session. John and I led the proceedings, showing off all the new elements of the recently released Move Pack: the create tools, new story levels, cut-scenes, and mini-games. John then opened up some of the levels from the pack, and from LittleBigPlanet 2, in Create mode, showing everyone how they were put together, and what made them tick.

John plays with one of the crowd!

Fans gaze upon the Move Pack.

After some multiplayer challenges and a weird and wonderful Q&A session, it was time to say goodbye to everyone for another year and head off to the official after-party. There, we took over a big TV and challenged party goers to beat us at our own game!

By the end of the party, it was clear that it was impossible to take a normal picture of John.

Thanks everyone for coming along. We had a great time, as we always do, and we’ll be sure to see you all again some time next year!

Everyone get excited: We have some Scheduled times for our LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Pack sessions at the Eurogamer Expo this weekend. Please come by the Sony Access area on the show floor (you’ll see it behind the PS Vita booth area!) to sign yourself up and say hello! :)

Friday

• 15:00
• 15:15
• 15:30
• 16:00
• 16:15
• 16:30
• 17:00
• 17:15
• 17:30

Saturday

• Fan Meet: 16:30

Sunday

• 13:00
• 13:15
• 13:30
• 14:00
• 14:15
• 14:30
• 15:15
• 15:45
• 16:00

See you there!

Leaving it to the last minute? Us? Never.

The Eurogamer Expo started today, games as far as the eye can see for everyone to play, yay!
As usual we will be there this weekend to say hello to you all!

We’ll be doing some developer sessions as part of the PlayStation Access area on Friday and Sunday, talking about the new Move pack and giving people the chance to ask us weird and wonderful questions.
On Saturday we will be having a fan meet, where you will be able to High Five the one and only Alex Evans, and get your Touching Royalty pin! This is your chance folks!

Fan Meet

The Fan meet will be at the PlayStation Access area on Saturday at 16:30 until 17:30.

If you bring us a piece of LBP Fan art, no matter how terrible yo think it might be, then there might be something in it for you*  - hint hint!**
(*until we run out of cool things to exchange!)
(** you really should bring some fan art)

If you attend the fan meet, you can also get your Fan Meetup pin!

Move Sessions

If you’re interested in attending a session and hear us talk about the Move pack, and answer some Questions, then you can book yourself in by heading to the PlayStation Access booth and asking about LBP sessions! We have sessions on Friday and Sunday.

Party

If you happen to be going to the Eurogamer / Sticktwiddlers party on Saturday night, then you’ll find us there too, along with some LBP related challenges to undertake!

See you there folks! Tweet @thespaff for more info or if you get lost!

The paintings below were created by Jim Unwin (http://jimunwin.com), designer of LBP’s User Experience, also known as the guy who makes hundreds and thousands of teensy icons to fill up your Popit. Even better, they were created in Move Paint, a new tool in The Move Pack (out now!) that allows you to paint your own stickers, or create masterpieces of modern art by using the Move Motion Controller like a glowing digital paintbrush…

Have you tried painting with Move yet? Link us some meisterworks folks!