LittleBigPlanet continues to evolve into its own unique experience, with Media Molecule producer Alex Evans drawing comparisons to social networking sites rather than videogames and interactive media.
"We tried to take inspiration from millions of websites," the developer stated. "My current favourite that I use all the time is Last.fm. But the thing is taking all of those ideas and turning them into a console experience."
"So we’ve got the standard webby features, and my favourite one is the photos in the game – you can take screenshots, but as with everything in the game it’s physical, so you can frame a shot, take it, then you can stick it," he explained. "But then you can upload it as well, and we use it in a variety of places, so every level has a feed of photos."
Evans also outlined in-game navigation features that bear a striking resemblance to a certain blue-tinged social website.
"But it gets even cooler, because that feed also applies to people," he enthused. "Then we take it even further, like Facebook. In any photos we know what kind of Sackboys were in it, who they were logged in as, so we put a box around their face which you can click and go and see that person. So if there’s a cool level with a guy wearing an awesome costume, you just D-pad up to him and hit X, and now you can see his levels, his favourites."
It just gets better and better.