LittleBigPlanet turns gamers into creators by Radka Konkolova

I think everybody has already try to play at least one of millions video games offered by various editors. Yes, I know there are great amount of various games you can play when online via Internet, on your computer, on video games console, even via cell phones. In one direction it is good thing sometimes because it can help children to concentrate, relax and maybe develops their senses, but sometimes there can be more cons than pros and gaming can have much worse impact on some children.

But everything is relative and all of these depend on person’s character and nature. Recently creators try to speak to every age group from children to retired people by offering them a great scale of different kinds of games. Of course there have been many changes from the first video game introduction and nowadays games. The biggest new of this season is you can create your own game and your own characters in it. This can be really interesting and maybe also motivation for some people.

The company Sony Computer Entertainment and studio of development Media Molecule have been launching this very speciality, what means the way of sharing ideas and creative talents thanks to Sony playing console PlayStation 3. The game which can be created by almost anyone will join the market very soon. Its name is LittleBigPlanet. This game is truly intuitive in control and is full of intuitive tools which allow user to change their game as they like. So they can customize almost everything from characters to the levels of the gameplay.

This game is dedicated to four gamers and less. There was also a competition, 24-hour Game Jam at Parsons The New School for Design taking place last week. The competitors very differed from each other. Actually there were 19 teams of competitors (together more than 150 students) who were trying to achieve financial reward in value of $1,000. There were almost as many girls as boys and much more non-gamers than those who love gaming among competitors. The winning Parsons entrants will be playable in the coming version of this game which is predicted to come on the market on October 21 this year.

I think this project is something revolutionary because it can be interesting, exciting and very entertaining for creators as well as for gamers. So now we can only look forward to the date of its official introduction…

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by Radka Konkolova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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