We like Motorstorm, and we like the crashes in Motorstorm in particular. The way the poor bike riders fly through the air like rag dolls is brilliant. So who better to be a motoring rag doll than Sackboy himself? Download the Motorstorm Hessian Stitch Costume and Level Pack and make Sackboy your very own crash test dummy, heading to the store next week!
Time to get out your trilbies, the Heavy Rain Costume pack hits the LittleBigStore next week! Five costumes and a set of stickers based on characters from the PS3 Thriller, including Madison, Jayden, Shelby, Ethan, and the Origami Parajita with a great big red jam stain all over it, sticky!
The Heavy Rain Costume Pack will be available next Tuesday for North America, Wednesday for the UK, and Thursday for the rest of Europe.
To celebrate the launch of the Play, Create, Share inspired cart racing extravaganza ModNation Racers, Sackboy’s tailoring department have been hard at work making sure that you can look the part.
Take Sackboy to the racetrack in style with the ModNation Racers costume and stickers from the LittleBigStore, out now in North America, Asia and Japan arriving in Europe next week!
In our 2nd episode we're talking more about LIttle Big Planet 2. More specifically what our thoughts are on the few new power ups that have been announced, Power Gloves, Magic Bags and the Grappling Hook. The 2nd half of the video we share our most wished for features for LBP2. Also featured at the end of the video is a quick preview of a brand new PS3 theme created by Erik exclusively for LIttle Big Planet Galaxy. Created with all custom icons and 4 amazing LBP2 wallpapers, this theme is frickin' awesome. Find the download link and instructions here.
– Andy Knowles, Designer
The final level. No pressure, then! To be honest this level was a bit of a headache. And not just a normal headache, but a big, fat headache, one of those ones that the ibuprofen doesn’t even take the edge off.
The main reason for this was that, like Jon’s submarine, the jump jet is effectively ‘floating’, and so can be really difficult to control. Now, Jon’s luckier than me because the sub’s supposed to be underwater, so moving really slowly is a good thing. Not for a jump jet though, eh? Oh no, something like that’s got to be moving pretty quickly. And we want it to have controls for four directions, not three (the sub is naturally buoyant). Four controls for one cockpit. Grrreat.
And another thing: the trouble with something as big as the jump jet being made to move at any speed greater than ‘quite slow’ is that you can’t see where you’re going. With the tank, for example, you can point the camera in front of it, and as long as Sackboy’s on-screen, everything’s fine. But the tank only needs to move forwards in its levels; the jet has to be able to go forwards, backwards, up, down, in fact it’s more than four directions because you can go diagonally as well.
The point is, I cracked it. The jet has a variable counter thrust when the player lets go of a control, making it stop quickly, so that you don’t fly into any of the hazards. The cockpit walls, floor and ceiling are all controls, meaning you just have to grab in the direction you want to move. The jet also gets locked into place whenever a magic mouth triggers making sure the player doesn’t fly off in a random direction while they read the text. The cameras are set up in the level (and not on the jet) so I know they’re always pointing in the right direction.
Okay, that’s my last development diary for the ‘Turbo! Pack’. We hope the insight into what we did was helpful to you. We’re looking forward to what you, the community, start doing with all these magnificent machines.
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Downloading with PS3 Browser (preferred)
1. Open web browser from XMB 2. Navigate to "http://www.littlebigplanetgalaxy.com" & Click the "Downloads" button at the top of the site. 3. Hover cursor over Download Now! text and Click 'Triangle' on your controller 4. From here scroll down to 'File', then 'Save Target'. The theme will be downloaded and automatically installed. 6. In your XMB go to “Settings”, then “Theme” and “Themes” 7. The theme you downloaded should be in the list, click on it and then apply.Downloading with PC or MAC
1. click the Download Now!' (MAC - "Ctrl - Click "Download Now") 2. press “Save” (MAC - press "download linked file as) 3. save to a SDCard or a USB Device (FAT32 formatted) 4a. make a folder in the Device or Card called “PS3? 4b. make a folder in the PS3 folder called “THEME” (ALL CAPS REQUIRED) 5. put the .pt3 file into the THEME folder 6. put the card or usb device into your ps3 7. go to themes 8. select install 9. select the memory card or USB device and find the "LBP2 Green Dude" theme 10. finally, apply the theme as you normally would
Back when LittleBigPlanet was still in it's public beta phase, I had the pleasure of meeting KAPBAM (Erik) through the forums that used to exist here at LittleBigPlanetGalaxy. I knew of KAPBAM because of the awesome wallpapers and themes he was creating for LBP which wasn't even out yet. To make a long story short, we became good friends through PSN and discovered just how much in common we really had. Both in creative positions professionally, very opinionated, and most importantly, LittleBigPlanet obsessed!
Next week you’ll be able to get your hands on the new Turbo Pack for LittleBigPlanet PSP, you know, the same pack we’ve been talking about for a few weeks now! Come on in and check it out!
Aaaah more tanks and destruction. Spiffing stuff. Here the landscape of the level changes once more as we introduce the bridge builder and missile launcher. These vehicles are both built in the same style as the tank, so you can create a whole matching army assault force should you so wish.
A problem that we encountered however, is that if you want the vehicles to be able to run side by side you’re kind of limited to using stickers and the front thin plane for decoration. The vehicles in this level only take up two planes each (a thin plane and a thick plane), so they can drive past each other easily as long as the back and middle thin planes are kept free – we also use this handy tactic on the crane and cement mixer in the construction level (Construction Derby).
As previously mentioned, the military levels see the introduction of not one, not two, but eight (yes really!) different toy soldiers. Well ok, four different ones, in two different colours. We really love these little guys. In fact, we love them so much we stuck brains on them so that we could blow them up. Ka-boom indeed!
Whilst previous levels have been wholly based around using the vehicles, this level sets you loose to explore more on foot. Did you ever get a shiny new toy, and have more fun building a fort out of the box? We certainly did, and this “homemade” aspect was largely our inspiration for this level. The style is quite simple but very strong and effective, making great use of cardboard materials and some wicked new castle-themed stickers. We’ve also put our lovely fire effect to good use in order to make certain sections look like they’re smouldering away, again in combination with some cunning sticker usage.
To all this we’ve added a good spattering of 3D objects to pep things up – look out for some cunning secret areas to make sure you pick all the prize bubbles up! Rounding things off is a rather unusual boss that you have to defeat using the rather satisfying might of the missile launcher. We don’t want to give too much away however, so you’ll just have to believe us when we say it’s wheely good…
Heavy Rain…
- Madison's Hair, Madison's Jacket, Madison's Trousers
- Origami Pajarita
- Ethan's Hair, Ethan's Trousers, Ethan's Jacket, Ethan skin
- Shelby's Trousers, Shelby's Jacket
- Jayden's Glasses, Jayden's Glove, Jayden's Hair, Jayden's Jacket
Release date: 06/08/2010 Price: £4.79 / €5.99 / US $5.99 / AUS $ 8.45 / NZD $9.50 Included: Costumes, Stickers....read on to view the image gallery