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The creators of LittleBigContra, winners of the Outstanding Achievement award in the 2009 Sackies have announced their latest project: To the Moon and Beyond.

Ace creators Jaeyden and Leonidas2123 are submitting the project as their entry in to HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition (announced back in January "Become a 'Game Changer' and earn up to $50,000").

To announce their project, they've released a trailer to give us all an insight of what's to come:

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You might have seen our tweet about it but LittleBigPlanet Central have made a trailer for thier upcoming collaborative level building project, entitled: LBPC: The Game.

LBPC: The Game is a project of epic proportions, involving a hard working team of 11 Creators, the project promises to be one of the biggest level creation projects ever, with a total of 13 Story Levels plus mini-games.

We’re looking forward to this already!

Exciting stuff! And not just because there is a Killer Otter in the video!

If you fancy finding out more about the LBPC: The Game project or maybe getting involved, head on over to LittleBigPlanet Central, there’s a discussion thread about the trailer release.

LittleBigLand are running a themed create contest, to create a level based on a fairy tale, and the winners will receive a much coveted rare prize crown!

All you need to do is choose your fairy tale, and all importantly, add a LittleBigPlanet themed twist to it, and make that into a cool level. The competition will start from right now, and submissions must all be in by 12th Jan next year, when judging will begin! Check out the rules and how to enter, over on LittleBigLand.

Wildr_Kids sent us some pics of their awesome LBP cake, and accompanying Sackboy based cup cakes too. It’s good to know that a year down the line there are still amazing LBP Cakes being eaten!

Those lovely folk over at LBPmedia.co.uk have made an virtual advent calendar, which will reveal a new thing every day. Behind the first door was a joke! What else is there in store for us?

“More outlandsish trivia, wordsearches, jokes, objects, games for the pc and levels for littlebigplanet itself. There’s even an exclusive item on the way! So hold on and enjoy, one and all! Make sure you come back every day to open the door to new nuggets of goodness, both little and big.”

Wowsers! We’ll be opening the calendar daily, Thanks LBP Media!

Back in April, a fansite orbiting the LittleBigPlanet unexpectedly crashed into the planet’s surface, and the team that ran it were hired by Mm. That was Tom (me) and Spaff, your community managers at here at Mm Towers.

Since starting the job, there has been one project occupying a great deal of our time, especially in recent months; To build a much needed LittleBigPlanet Community site.

Today it launches: A one-stop place to get all your LittleBigPlanet news,  latest community updates, full details on all the latest downloadable add-on content for the game, details on everything from the trophies, game patches, a help and FAQ section, videos, screenshots, and a Mermahuataur.

Of course, this week also marks the Launch of Cambridge Studio’s LittleBigPlanet on the PSP, and the site supports our new friend too – with full information and details about the brand new LittleBigPlanet PSP, including playing, creating and sharing on the go. Everything LittleBigPlanet!

So we’re all really pleased to bring you the new www.littlebigplanet.com: A mountain of in-game assets combined with over 25,000 of Spaff’s beautifully handcrafted words (translated by Sony’s localisation teams in to 11 languages no less) all bundled together with some peeper shattering visual spazzle-dazzle.

It’s the first part of a bigger plan for LittleBigPlanet’s presence on the web, a board from which to build on, and you can be sure that there will be much, much more to come in the future, as LittleBigPlanet continues to evolve its community through the web, and through the games themselves.

Huzzah!

Out today is a nifty set of fan made levels created by some of the Curators at LittleBigPlanet Central: The Logic Pack, a set of levels containing logic gates and tools aimed at bridging the gap between Creators who understand logic and those who don’t. Such as me for example.

I asked ConfusedCartman, one of the minds behind this excellent teaching tool, what this was all about…

“Our goal with this pack is to demonstrate what’s possible with logic, through interactive demonstrations and the actual levels themselves, so that Creators of all skill sets can learn how to utilize logic in their own levels”

“At LBPCentral at least, we’ve witnessed a divide in the quality of levels which seems to be based on the use of logic. Creators who understand it, and use it well, generally have higher-quality levels than those who don’t, and currently there’s no easy way to learn about logic and get started with it on your own.”

  “If you don’t have a friend who’s good with logic and is willing to teach you how it works, you’re pretty much stuck. But now, there’s an option for those Creators, a way for them to discover how useful logic in LittleBigPlanet actually is.”

In the LBPC Logic pack you’ll take a trip to LogicTech, and it is here that you’ll learn easy, intermediate and advanced logic techniques, and gain access to a vault of pre-made logic switches. It might sound a tad complicated, but the team have put in a lot of work to make sure even the most complicated ideas are accessible to all. It’s definitely worth checking out.

To find and play the LBPC Logic Pack, Search for “LBPC Logic”  alternatively, find the author @LogicPack via the search.

If you head over to LBPCentral, you will also find some accompanying guides to more advanced techniques, featuring hundreds of screengrabs and levels to copy to your Moon to play with and pick apart!

The Logic Pack was made over five long months by mrsupercomputer, comphermc,
CuzFeeshe, rtm223, and ConfusedCartman, all of whom shall now be crowned for their impressive and helpful work! Good work guys!

Another one year anniversary to celebrate, oh my! It’s been a whole year since the first episode of the LittleBigPodcast, and to celebrate their 40th epicsode, Austin and Daniel invited Tom and Me (Spaff) to be guests on their show, and answer all kinds of pretty silly questions about cheese, films, and the LittleBigPlanet Community.

Happy Birthday guys, keep up the good work!

A big thank you to everyone who came down to our mini fan meet at the Eurogamer Expo! It was a really fantastic day, and we had a lot of fun meeting all you all.

If you couldn’t make it down, don’t be too sad, this is definitely not the last time we do one of these, so hopefully you’ll get your chance!

The internet is now awash with various pics and videos from the event. For instance this interview with Sam and Laura who came down from Studio Cambridge to talk about LBP PSP this extensive interview with Danny, John, and Martin over on Sackcast, and we’ve uploaded a bunch of shots to our Flickr stream.

Highlights from the day include meeting the crazy creative people that make up our community, the tag jamming sessions in Create mode, where various creators and Mm designers jammed together to make some random levels, and being able to play people’s levels with them side by side.

We had a few little party bags to give away to fans that attended, but to get hold of one you had to give us a drawing and say the magic password (Plagachef). This of course means we now have around 100 pieces of fan art to put on our wall, and we’ll hopefully get some pictures of those on the internet soon, lots of creativity and comedy all round, good work.

So, thanks again everyone who came, what an awesome time!