With Little Big Planet, Media Molecule have created a game that truly embodies Phil Harrisons vision of so called ‘Game 3.0’. Tags, comments, photo tagging and bookmarking tools are all key elements of Web 2.0 which Media Molecule have seamlessly integrated in to Little Big Planet to make one of the biggest community-focused games to date.
So it was somewhat of a surprise to see that when Little Big Planet launched, there was no web based counterpart to fulfil the communities needs when out-of-game.
Today sees the arrival of a new community-built website that truly shows us what Sony should have created when producing a community site to support Media Molecule’s fantastic work developing the game.
The site is called Sackbook, an obvious play on Facebook, and welcome page tells us that “Sackbook helps you to connect and share with the sackpeople in your life”, and we think it’s really going to live up to that ideal…
You see, Sackbook pulls data live from the Little Big Planet servers and lets you view it right on your computer. Want to find out how many people have played your level whilst you’re sitting at your desk at work? Want to check how many hearts your level has had? Want to see the latest photos users have taken on your level? (yes, it is possible to get those screengrabs with user-tagging out apparently!) It’s all there. Whilst we think it’s fantastic that a community game like Little Big Planet can rely on its community to provide the ultimate tools through playing, creating and sharing, it’s also incredibly sad that this essential tool wasn’t already catered for.
So effective is its execution, Sackbook manages to make Sony’s own LittleBigWorkshop site seem somewhat lacklustre in comparison. Sony, we hope you’re listening because this really is the site you should have built.
Head over now to www.sackbook.com and sign-up to what is perhaps the ultimate LittleBigPlanet social network.
Man, why does this feed item keep getting displayed in the RSS as if it’s new? I assume you’ve updated it a couple of times since posting it or something, but normally it doesn’t make the item appear again as a new item in Google Reader even if it changes quite a bit.
Might be worth looking into as I’ve ended up with this one news item appearing three times in my reader — not normal RSS behaviour. :~
Thanks Ryan, you’ve highlighted a bug which we’re trying to fix.
Thanks for your feedback and we’re trying to ensure this doesn’t happen again… 
*EDIT* We’ve now fixed this bug!
;D
Another thing I thought was a bit weird is how the comment form is above the comments themselves. It’s the other way round the vast majority of sites/blogs, as well as forums that have quick reply. Might be more intuitive if those are swapped.
Ace work on the site in general, of course!
Hmmm… Thanks again Ryan.
The form position is something we’ll consider if enough people mention that. Two so far :p
I think this comes down to my personal web hang-out, Eurogamer, which of course has its form above the comments. I’m personally, just used to it. I’ll add a shortcut link at the very least right now…. 
It certainly is pretty ridiculous Sony didn’t make this themselves considering how easily Sackbook displays all the data. I also hope they don’t patch/block it out as sour grapes…
Having access finally to all those level pics and avatars is great though!
The site is down today. The note says they were shut down by Sony’s lawyers. The author makes it sound like ‘It’s all part of the plan,’ but it makes me very sad.
Wow..I was really excited about this. Hopefully Sony has nice lawyers
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