LittleBigPlanet

Authoring with a gamepad from inside the fiction — creation as play, not as a separate tool.

Released 2008 Developer Media Molecule Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Platform PlayStation 3 Genre Platformer / creation Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Creation & Modding · 2008

In-Game Creation Suite

In-game creation suites place the authoring tools inside the game world itself, so players build levels and objects wi…

Origin: LittleBigPlanet

Mechanics it built on

Ideas LittleBigPlanet inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Bundled Level Editor ~~1983~~Split-Screen Simultaneous ~~1984~~Rigid-Body Puzzle Physics ~~2004~~User-Content Marketplace ~~2006~~

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