Media Molecule blog http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog The makers of Little Big Planet push their brain into your face. YOUR FACE. Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en LittleBigKillZone http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/05/09/littlebigkillzone/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/05/09/littlebigkillzone/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 09:22:03 +0000 Jim http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/?p=104

The new trailer made for Sony’s Playstation Day event. Enjoy!

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Fajitas last night. Yum!

Dinner and back to work….

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the geniuses at libipl.net have discovered the discarded archive footage of sackboy interviewing kenny and seamlessy re-edited it into its rightful place. for the full scoop, visit: http://www.libipl.net/libiplblog/?p=79

it’s fantastic! and if you think it’s hard being SCOTTISH at an english game developer, just you wait till we interview THE AMERICANS in a future episode. oh lord, the chicken wings. the baseball. 

(and finally… 2 more people have been filmed for devface but sackboy appears to be distracted making the game or something so the next episode will be forthcoming soon… just as soon as he can get his felty paws off the ps3 devkit for long enough…)

]]> http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/27/kenny-loves-the-internet/feed/ DevFace Episode #1: Meet Kenny! http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/18/devface-episode-1-meet-kenny/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/18/devface-episode-1-meet-kenny/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:37:43 +0000 Alex http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/?p=90  Wee Kenno

Meet the Molecules! In the first of what we hope will be a (regularly?) recurring series, we present to you: KENNY, or Wee Kenno as his dad calls him - audio designer extra-ordinaire and lover of bad movies….

He was interviewed by sackboy so we had to edit out the questions - the only clues are that the first one is ‘what is your name’ and the last is ‘what are you going to make first when LBP comes out?’. Without further ado, KENNY:


]]> http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/18/devface-episode-1-meet-kenny/feed/ Sackboy Wallpapers http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/17/sackboy-wallpapers/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/17/sackboy-wallpapers/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:41:51 +0000 Rex http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/17/sackboy-wallpapers/ I’m been up to my elbows in Photoshop, putting together lots of artwork, mainly for marketing, to show how gosh-darn-exquisite our game is. After the dust settled on a rampant session of cutting up bits of cardboard, sticking, photographing and tweaking, I had a few photos left over, one featuring Silvias real knitted Sackboy (who now lives in our office with us). I thought maybe a few people out there might like this “out-take” especially if it was in high-res desktop wallpaper form. So here it is. Save it to your desktop and you can stare into Sackboys eyes everytime the world gets you down, you format the wrong hard-drive, or you realize its still not September, and LittleBigPlanet STILL isn’t on the shelves…

Sackboy Bustin’ Out (Low-Res 1024 x 576):

Sackboy Wallpaper - Low Resolution (1024 x 768)

Sackboy Bustin’ Out (High-Res 1600 x 1200):

Sackboy Wallpaper - High Resolution (1600 x 1200)

Sackboy Bustin’ Out (High-Res, Widescreen 1920 x 1200):

Sackboy Wallpaper - High Widescreen Resolution (1920 x 1200)

]]> http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/04/17/sackboy-wallpapers/feed/ We’re Still Alive! http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/03/19/we%e2%80%99re-still-alive/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/03/19/we%e2%80%99re-still-alive/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:40:30 +0000 Jim http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/03/19/we%e2%80%99re-still-alive/ Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’ve been having a hectic time here at Mm Towers. Having finally sobered up after the Surrey Business Awards we’ve been slaving away pushing LittleBigPlanet toward the Alpha stage of its development cycle. Basically this means all the cool stuff we said will be in there should be playable, even if it isn’t pretty enough to release. The game seems to change every day at the moment and it is very exciting to be able to sit down and play what feels more and more like a complete experience.

One of the things that keep us sane during these stressful times is to drink maintain personal projects. Some people draw, some write music. Some people, like Victor one of our ace level designers, unwind by making even more games. Games like the awesome Blacklist:

He’s been working on it for about a year, and plans to release it on deadtoast.com soon. Check it out!

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]]> http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/11/we-iz-winnerz/feed/ sackboy vs silvia http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/07/sackboy-vs-sylvia/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/07/sackboy-vs-sylvia/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:42:45 +0000 Alex http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/07/sackboy-vs-sylvia/ to answer the commenters, silvia is a German lady who lives in France, and as far as we can tell a knitwear genius who created the sackboy entirely based on what she’d seen online of our game! we don’t have a pattern (yet?!) and we haven’t even seen the physical toy ourselves - so far only those two pics, sent by the magic of the interweb all the way from La Belle France. We all want one too!

]]> http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/07/sackboy-vs-sylvia/feed/ Sackboy. Fo’ REAL. http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/06/sackboy-fo-real/ http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/06/sackboy-fo-real/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:49:12 +0000 Rex http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/2008/02/06/sackboy-fo-real/ We’re all totally in love with our little Sackboy character, we’ve spent a couple years watching him run, jump and slap his way though dozens of levels, and the little chap has so much personality we could almost believe he’s real.

So our collective jaws hit the floor when we saw what one of our artists MOTHERS had made, Silvia’s actually made Sackboy, for real, in all his knitted and stitched glory! It’s so good we wondered if we’d hired the right member of the family to work here! (Not really, her son is making artwork for the game that will blow you away) but we can certainly see where he gets his talent from..

Real Sackboy!

So adorable. It makes me want to hug him so tightly that his zip bursts and his button eyes pop out. But I won’t.

And here he is in the Chinese dragon costume:

sackboyknit2.jpg

sackboyknit3.jpg

Just in time to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

Anyone else got anything to show?! ;)

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We have had to update the job spec to include location & availability requirements, so please have a read before you apply :-)

Contract Quality Assurance (QA) role

6 Month UK based contract

Requirements :

  • You must be available in 2 weeks to start a full time 6 month contract on site in our studio which is based in Guildford, United Kingdom.
  • You must be over 18 to apply
  • You must be permitted to work in the UK
  • You must attach an up to date CV and cover letter which highlights why you are perfect for the job!

The successful candidate will:

  • Carry out visual and participative checks on LittleBigPlanet for quality bugs
  • Log all identified bugs through our system

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

  • Competent games player.
  • Strong knowledge of computer games across multiple platforms.
  • Educated to G.C.S.E grade ‘C’ or higher in English.
  • Basic knowledge of database, spreadsheet and word processor applications.

To apply, email CV’s to jobs@mediamolecule.com

Thanks!

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