Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet delivered on its promise of providing players with all the tools they would need to design their own dream stages. Unfortunately, we then all learned that building a satisfying game level is pretty damn hard. Thankfully, a few of the cool kids from Media Molecule's design team put together this very helpful tips video, reviewing everything you need to make your survival challenges successful as compelling game experiences. They even show a few examples of excellent user-generated survival challenges to show what those people are doing right:
So, lots more switches, basically.
That reminds me, I really need to finish that stage I started building with my sister over the holidays. I left off swinging from the biplane onto a rocketing unicorn... but how am I going to get li'l sackboy over to those shooting star cars before the dragon breathes fire all over the cloud platforms?
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