Gamasutra has posted coverage of Alex Evans’ talk at the D.I.C.E conference, which he gave after Mm won eight of twelve available AIAS awards the night before.
“I don’t want to paint a picture that we’re just a bunch of hippies in a room,” Evans added.
“How do you make sure you’re not just making shit?” he asked, saying that as a studio director he considered that question many times. He recalled Media Molecule going through many, many iterations of its core user creation tools, many of which were only practical for creating “melty lumps of shit.”
The user tools ended up needing to be powerful enough to create production-quality content. “We are just power users,” Evans explained—the PC-based tools the team uses are simply more efficient versions of the same tools that ship with the game on PlayStation 3.
The decision to pursue that focus with the tools was one that required great effort and caused many headaches, he admitted, but it “paid off in huge spades.”
Interesting, that was always a bit of an unanswered question to us, whether the developers used a more enhanced set of tools or not, and it appears they do. Oh to get our hands on ‘em!
Read the full report on Alex’s talk over on Gamasutra.
How amazing would it be if they introduced mouse and keyboard support for Little Big Planet? The PS3 supports it… so imagine if they made an advanced editor on the PS3… *dreams*
Extended keyboard support would be nice. Quiet often I wished for the ability to just type in the length of pistons and the likes. I wouldn’t mind mouse support either, but then I’d have to sit right in front of the TV.
The one thing I would like more than anything in the game would be a more complex editor option being made available with mouse and keyboard support.
please keyboard support! letter shortcuts would make things much easier
Developing Mouse and keyboard support is probably very hard, i doubt they will do it.
LOOK guys LBP is meant to have simple level tools so everyone can access them, you want complex stuff go use sanbox2 for crysis for far cry 2 editor , lbp is meant to be simple which is a good thing, mean more people getting ps3s…
