Well, it's crummy quality video but here (//http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8btNGyek5s) is a glimpse of one of my first tinkerings with the level creation tools of Little Big Planet on Playstation3.
Like I say, it's a bit fuzzy so you can't read the "Hi Frost*ies..." text but it does give a glimpse of some early possibilities.
Should be feasible to develop a good music based puzzle level with a full-on Frost*y feel for players around the world to have a go at. :)
Edit: 2nd test video (//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbLJDoXWl_s)
shit. So amazing. I need to get a ps3 asap :D
This is the kind of videogame that we Frosties want! :D
Thats awesome! nicely done :mrgreen:
Nicely done Pedro :D
That's brilliant that is.
This band has some dedicated people out there!
Awesome work...
Quote from: "eponymous"First thing I've ever seen that made me wish I had a PS3!
Oh dear, me too :shock:
I have to say, I think they've pulled off the greatest tutorial ever
//http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmasnf9ydY
Quote from: "Beano"Quote from: "eponymous"First thing I've ever seen that made me wish I had a PS3!
Oh dear, me too :shock:
I have to say, I think they've pulled off the greatest tutorial ever
//http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmasnf9ydY
That's amazing ! I've never heard of this game (probably cause I dont have a PS3 either) but man it sure is becoming top of my xmas wish list now :mrgreen:
Want one... NOW!
That is SO cool! When people get bored with their PS3s in a couple of years I'm gonna buy one cheap. (;-)
Thanks guys. :D
The bogglingly clever bit is that every bit they used in the playable bit of the game becomes available for you to make your own levels. Even that Vision On - Gallery music is useable. You can even take apart the supplied levels to find out how they were done.
Creating huge solid shapes out of anything from carboard to sponge, steel to stone is ludicrously easy.
Every different technique is humourously tutorialised with the excellent Mr Fry's voice-over. You can create just about anything in this game and the toolbox just keeps growing and growing.
The ability to make your own stickers (used to decorate or paint items) using an add-on "Eye" camera makes custom themed decoration very possible.
Just playing the supplied levels is enormous fun. I've had several laugh-out-loud moments (been a while since a game did that) and I've only just scratched the surface....
Cooperative play is even more fun, my lad and I were in fits of laughter earlier on when we both grabbed hold of a rocket-propeller car thingy and we looped insanely out of control across the screen!
I'm planning on making at least one decently challenging Frost*-flavoured level and uploading it to the PSN community for the world to play. Time is the only enemy, of course, getting it right and good enough for others to play isn't a 5-minute job....but it is a whole bunch of fun. :D
absolutely awesome, Pedro.
/bow
my son just bought a PS3, so I sent him the link, and told him he needs to get LBP.
Just brilliant Pedro!
Awesome.
Is it too late to call you:
FAN BOY :D :D :D
Love it. Excellent work, Pedders. :mrgreen:
that is so awesome!
However I'd rather see a snowy background than a desert. I assume though that you thought of that and this was all you could work with..
This game looks absolutely awesome. I wish it was on 360 though, I just cannot buy a PS3...
That was brilliant Pedro!
And I also love how you changed the Hyperventilate theme into 4/4, silly game doesn't know prog!
Good lord. There we go, video sorted!
Nice one Ped!
JJJ
LOL
I have sooo many ideas re the musical content of some "puzzles" I could do - even with just the bits I have collected so far in the game.
The timing of the Hyper-V bit could indeed do with a little more adjustment but it is completely free-form (no 4/4 constraint in the game). The notes you hear are individually triggered as the sack-boy runs past the the white "speaker" objects, so a pixel or two left and right and the timing changes. Put him in a car and the tempo goes up. ;)
Other sounds collected so far include a sine-wave tone, bass and drum samples. The potential is quite large. For example, another layer of speaker objects on top of the ones above and there would be drums in the riff.... ;)
I just don't expect to be able to load actual music into it (mp3s or whatever) because uploading these to the world at large would open the can on copyright issues (and foul-mouth idiots, etc.).
As for the background, with more time I could have manually "Frost*ed" the background of a winter scene but I chose one of the quick and easy ready-made "template" backgrounds. The thing is, I haven't played the one-player game far enough to collect the snow/winter template....yet. ;)
Quote from: "Pedro"The notes you hear are individually triggered as the sack-boy runs past the the white "speaker" objects, so a pixel or two left and right and the timing changes. Put him in a car and the tempo goes up. ;)
Ooh! Fun!!!
So it'll play backwards if you run back the other way.... this could have been useful to Jem recently!
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Pedro"The notes you hear are individually triggered as the sack-boy runs past the the white "speaker" objects, so a pixel or two left and right and the timing changes. Put him in a car and the tempo goes up. ;)
Ooh! Fun!!!
So it'll play backwards if you run back the other way.... this could have been useful to Jem recently!
LOL
Yes, run back the other way and the tune is played in reverse order (not backwards samples of course).
They can also be triggered by a switch object, so I could have attached a switch object to, say, an Indiana Jones style ball and rolled that past to acheive the same effect....or attach it to a rocket powered car for really widdly passages! :D
I'm not kidding, the only signiifcant limitations are imagination and patience. :)
Wow, that's awesome Pedro! :D
Quote from: "Pedro"LOL
The thing is, I haven't played the one-player game far enough to collect the snow/winter template....yet. ;)
Ah, that's the answer I was looking for :lol:
That was fantastic! I really want a PS3 now... !!
Oh, just seen this, very well done Pedro! Not that I'm familiar with the territory... however the younger members here have enlightened me.
:D Brilliant!
Everyone let Pedro get back to playing so he can collect more stuff! :D
Quote from: "Sarah"That was fantastic! I really want a PS3 now... !!
Seeing a frost level made you want to spend $300 :lol:
thats awesome.
Frost could sell a PS3.
Maybe Sony will sponsor the tour.
After seeing the possibilities of a game like this (i.e. Frost* the Game), i regret being a Wii owner.
I've been looking at buying a PS3 as they have the more long-term game play. I love my Wii but i get bored with the games over time.
You gotta upload more when you get a chance
-Art
cool stuff Pedro..
I love the air guitars during the solo! What an incredible video! (:-D
Nice one Pedders only just had chance to watch it
It was alright, i was hoping to see some more action ;)
still good job!
My sons are now trying to persuade me to get a PS3...
Ok, that particular "cat" is out of the bag then. :)
I was planning on bouncing it off the lion king himself before posting about it but, as you might imagine, he is insanely busy round about now! ;)
That second video was really just to test one of my concepts for a "live" segment if a video was ever done for Toys....or any other track for that matter.
It only took about 6.5 hours to rig it all up, build everything you see there (from scratch), import the images/logos etc. Some of the cardboard isn't even painted yet.... :roll:
I then grabbed the first bit of music to hand and improvised the action in one single take....none of that was really planned or scripted except the camera angles for the "big reveal" of the stage.
So that was the product of an all-nighter :shock: (please add matchsticks to that smilie!)....if the piece lacks sub-plot and character development I can only fire the team of writers!
Sorry there wasn't much action in it. I have *loads* of ideas (too many, really) and I haven't even tried using any of the dozens of contraptions, switches, motors, explosives, electrified items, etc. yet. :twisted:
"I haven't even tried using any of the dozens of contraptions, switches, motors, explosives, electrified items, etc. yet. :twisted:"
Holy shit, im really looking forward :mrgreen:
Quote from: "eponymous"Quote from: "Pedro"Ok, that particular "cat" is out of the bag then. :)
Sorry! :oops: I subscribe to your YouTube stuff so I saw it early this morning! :D
Hey, no worries Epo, mate. :D
I've been kind of bursting to tell about it all day and I did think it might leak out (as it were!).
I'm going to try to keep on with it as a project but there are a couple of hard facts to face, I think....
1) Sony will very probably never sanction "official" use of the game for promotion of non-Sony artists (I haven't even bothered to look into it), and....
2) I wouldn't mind betting that one or more of the mainstream acts will be in the process of getting official support to use the game for a video. With the right know-how, the little sackboy characters could be dressed to look like the band members and carry the right type of guitar, etc.... Consider the Rush concert projections that used South Park, and so on. It would be so easy to do a Three Stooges style routine, for example.
Still, it's a bit of fun.... ;)