Items tagged with 'Awards'

LittleBigPlanet picked up the award for best Video Game at the Children’s BAFTA Awards last night! Mega Woot!

Mark spoke to GamesIndustry.biz shortly after picking up the award, and he spoketh thus:

“It means a lot. It was always an early ambition to make something that appeals to adults and kids, specifically that adults and kids could play together and have fun and I suppose winning this some way confirms that maybe we did that. We’ve won so many awards for it, it’s like, how do we ever top this? I don’t think I’ll appreciate how really cool it is until I’m old!”

Are you aged between 7 and 14 (and in the UK)? Then you could vote for us to win the BAFTA Kids’ vote games award this year! The BATA’s kids’ vote awards are a chance for young folk to have their say, and vote for their favourite game, TV show, film and website of the year.  Sadly you can’t vote for this website, probably because it would just be unfair to the others when we got 100% of the votes… yeah it’s gotta be that.

Head on over to the BAFTA Kids’ vote site, and vote for LittleBigPlanet; There are two ways to vote, the quick and easy HTML version of the site, or the rather funky flash version, featuring character selection and trailers of the things you can vote for. Vote!

Yesterday was quite eventful. A lot of Molecules were in London, split between Playful ‘09, the Golden Joystick awards (where we won the Best Family Game award, yay!) and the Eurogamer Expo where our mini fan meet was held (full report coming soon!)

So what were the remaining Molecules doing? Hard at work one would hope, right? Well it appears they were busy guzzling Halloween sweets and carving pumpkins all day. Good on ‘em!

Here’s hoping you all have a great night tonight, remember to send us your LittleBigPlanet Halloween costumes or pumpkins! Remember to go grab the Pumpkin head costume from the store too!

Last week was the annual Develop conference in Brighton, and we were there to give some talks, come a cruel 4th in a games quiz, and win a nice stack of shiny awards!

Mark and Kareem gave a talk entitled The Art of LittleBigPlanet - A Big Medley discussing how the visual style of LittleBigPlanet was decided upon and evolved, how the feel of the game was defined by the materials, and everything being bolted together. They also discussed how you guys have been using the game to make all kinds of different visual treats for us to enjoy. Highlights of the talk included peeks at early sackboy sketches, prototype videos such as the famous YellowHead demo, and some screenshots of some of your levels and sackboy costumes.

Kenny gave a talk to the audiophiles of the conference entitled Real-time Audio: Context Is Everything in which he apparently ‘explored the history of game audio to establish how and why we’ve manipulated audio in the past in order to help understand many of the inherited methods and problems we now take for granted’. When I asked him what that meant he said ‘stuff’ and then said ‘it’s about the why, and not the how, of audio manipulation’ so there you go! Sadly I wasn’t there to see the talk, but knowing Kenny, it would have been fairly awesome, insightful and full of bonhomie.

On the Wednesday night a small gang of Molecules attended the Develop awards, where we had been nominated for five awards, all of which we won, thank you Develop! Look at all these great things we won:

Media Molecule

• Best Independent Developer
• Best New Studio

LittleBigPlanet

• Artistic Achievement
• Technical Innovation
• Best New IP

The trophies are apparently really shiny and will look great in our new trophy cabinet, but Mark took them home with him and immediately buggered off on a tropical holiday somewhere (jealous!), so the report of just how shiny they are is pure hearsay at the moment. We shall confirm in coming weeks.

Thanks to everyone who voted for us, we are very humbled, and overjoyed!

Shininess update! One of the awards arrived in the post just now, and they are indeed nice and shiny, also very heavy, provoking some scary murderous comments. Check it out!

It has come to our attention that we’re in the running for six Golden Joystick awards - awards that are voted for by you, the gaming public! Media Molecule and LittleBigPlanet can be found under the following categories:

• Family Game of The Year
• Multiplayer Game of The Year
• PlayStation Game of The Year
• Soundtrack of The Year
• UK Developer of The Year
• The Ultimate Game of The Year

Now, we might look a bit greedy asking you to vote for us to win more awards, what with the great big pile of awards we already have, but, well you know, it’s nice to get awards isn’t it? :)  Seriously though, why not go and vote for your favourite games, developers and publishers In the Golden Joystick Awards!

Just look at all those shiny awards, sparkling in the sun, and lined up all neatly on a table by the entrance to the office; an area that will henceforth be dubbed, the foyer.

The breakdown:

• 8 A.I.A.S Awards
• 4 Game Developer’s Choice Awards
• 2 Spike VGA Awards
• 2 G.A.N.G Awards
• 1 BAFTA
• 1 Surrey Business Award
• 1 Official Playstation Magazine Award
• 1 iGizmo Award
• 1 Pocket-lint Gadget Award

Everyone has taken a turn holding the various awards whilst beaming with pride and posing for photographs. Thanks very much to everyone who voted for us or picked us for the various awards, and helped us to win these lovely shiny objects.

Of course personally I’ve only been here a few days, but Sssshhh they’re mine too, I won them.

W00t! Our game LittleBigPlanet has been shortlisted for the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2009!

Exciting times.

You can check us and the other entrants (but mainly us, right?) at the Design Museum, London between 12th of February and 14th June. See you there!