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In this spotlight edition of the Media Molecule Podcast, Kenny, Daniel and Spaff sit down with Mm Art Director Kareem Ettouney to discuss his influences and passions, and how they affected the look at feel of the weird mish-mash that is LittleBigPlanet. We discuss generalities of art in games, games as art, how Mm works as a studio, how you can only be as mad as how serious you are, and Kareem sneaks in his obligatory Beatles Analogy.

After the podcast Kareem attended his art class, where he painted this picture… we include it here as a great example of Kareem’s personal interests, influences and non Mm work. There’s plenty more Sphinx magic for those who are interested, just visit Kareem’s website - kareemettouney.com

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The classic gang are back together at last, Daniel, Kenny, Spaff and Tom grab some tea and discuss our Japan relief efforts, recent trips and shows, and go over some interesting audio snippets Kenny found down the back of the sofa. Marvel at us as we try to remember theme or level names from LittleBigPlanet, shriek at us as we get it wrong, and then just give up and enjoy the show. We also answer some questions from twitter, exciting stuff!

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Oh my! We’ve only gone and fulfilled our new years resolution by recording another podcast this year (although it should have been released last week oops)!

Mm Podcast 5 is slightly different to what I’m going to describe as the normal way we do things, despite not really recording enough of them to establish any kind of norm. This time we invited Jim Unwin and Nathan Ruck to join the usual gang of Spaff, Tom and Kenny, and focused our discussion on how these guys designed the User Interface for LittleBigPlanet 2.

As referenced in the podcast, Jim has recently uploaded a presentation of his concepts for the UI to Flickr. They should provide you with a more in depth glimpse into the creation of the new UI in LBP2.

Additionally, Jim will be talking at SXSW in March, so if you are going, you should go and listen to what he has to say!

If you have any questions you’d like to ask us, or any comments for us, you can mail us at podcast@mediamolecule.com - thanks for listening, we’ll be back soon!

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Our last podcast was back in November 2009 - and we decided that rather than try to do a regular podcast whilst making LittleBigPlanet 2, we’d face up to the fact that it simply wasn’t going to happen and skip the entire year altogether.

Well - new year, new resolutions and NEW PODCAST. In a new effort to bring you a regular podcast, we kick off 2011 with a brand new podcast to celebrate our brand new game, LittleBigPlanet 2 - launching this week!

Join Kenny, Michelle, Spaff and Tom as we sit down in Kenny’s audio booth to discuss what’s going on in this very exciting launch week.

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Austin and Daniel, the incredible duo behind the LittleBigPodcast, published the 95th episode of their show this weekend, which also happens to be the second anniversary episode!
They celebrated with a crazy video interview with some of us - look, here’s part one now!

Happy Anniversary guys, what an awesome amount of dedication, we salute you!

It’s Spaff’s 30th birthday today - so in amongst the hustle and bustle of everything that’s going on in the office right now - there was a welcome opportunity for the team to NOM down on some very fine triple chocolate cake. And of course, sing Happy Birthday to the man himself.

Spaff will of course be celebrating in style throughout the weekend and come December, enjoying a very special week in Scotland. IN A CASTLE. He might have told you this already…

Anyway - here’s wishing Spaff a very Happy 30th Birthday! Feel free to leave your love in the comments :)

Phillipe from Gamerant nabbed some of our time at the Eurogamer Expo recently, and asked us all about Video Games. Amongst our answers were some pretty groundbreaking revelations, including this incredible moment in history…

*At this point, a woman with biscuits walked past the table. Unfortunately, they were not for us.*

AE: “Ah, biscuits!……. Ah, fail!”

JS: “We just failed to get biscuits “

AE: “*Sighs* So excited by biscuits.”

GR: [Going back to Heavy Rain] I actually loved that game. You can tell, just by looking at that game, how different, how diverse, the gaming industry is now. David Cage (Creative Director of Heavy Rain)…

AE: “Oh I love you!”

*The biscuit lady has returned, bearing biscuits.*

AE: “Thank you very much!”

GR: We’re getting biscuits!

AE: “Oh, you’re the nicest person!”

Biscuit Lady: “These are for the speakers, you’re a speaker, right?”

AE: “I was speaking earlier this morning!”

GR: I’m speaking now…

JS: “I organized our speakers!”

BL: “Oh, alright then. Don’t tell anyone!”

AE: “Bless you, thank you so much.”

You can read more about the biscuits, and other far less important things we might have said about video games, the people that make them, and how awesome our community is in this three part interview over on Game Rant.

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!

I’ve always said that if you leave anything on Rex’s desk it will be covered in doodles before the day is out. I left my Macbook Air on his desk to test the theory and look what happened!

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!