MM's Next Game Discussion

Ok, so, we know MM is working on a new game, right? So far, we know little. This is the info on their next project on LinkedIn:

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Originally Posted by Media Molecule

What are we doing right now? Well, that’d be telling. Suffice to say, we are very hard at work making games. Even as you read this very sentence, we’re typing furiously, having meetings, writing crazy algorithms, painting pixels and drawing up schedules. Not to hype it up or anything, but literally everything we do right now is shrouded in secrecy. Even that new type of tea in the kitchen. No one knows what it is or where it came from, but everyone is raving about it. There’s no need to ask, because it is a mystery to you.

• Graphics!
• Really sweet Gameplay!
• Sounds and Music!
• Interactions!

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and on their Jobs Page:

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Originally Posted by Media Molecule

At Media Molecule, we are currently working on brand new IPs, even more ambitious than LBP was when it was conceived 6 years ago.

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BTW, if you're wondering why I, of all people, was looking at MM stuff, it's cause I need to write a resume for a college course and decided that MM was a good choice for my fake resume, and I found this when trying to find it's address.

Anyway, what you should get from this is that MM's next game is more ambitious than LBP. Now, I'm unsure if there is any way they could measure ambition without it being the same type of ambition, meaning that I'm pretty sure their next game will be a Play Create Share title. Only more ambitious.

So, what do you think? LBP 3D? If so, keep the LBPness (even though they say new IP) or make it so you can make more realistic stuff?

I was thinking it might be something like XNA for Xbox 360, where it'd be a launch title for the PS4 and people could create their own games on it without the confines of LBP... Does that sound ok to your ears? If not, what do you think?

More ambitious eh? New IP eh?

There's only one possibility!

BigLittlePlanet

We're not gonna see any new LBP goodness from MM. One of their new IPs could be something evolving from LBP. LBP2's create mode is quite complex, the next direction for MM is to build on that with an IP with a premise similar to LBP but with a more intense focus on creating stuff, maybe to the point where it becomes programming stuff, creating custom polygons, shading, tetrahedrons and sh*t.

I hope Spaff does the PR
He has charisma and knows how to deal with people and be fair

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Originally Posted by RockSauron

LBPness

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Don't call it that.

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Originally Posted by Media Molecule

• Graphics!
• Really sweet Gameplay!
• Sounds and Music!
• Interactions!

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Sold! :p
ignore the invisitext...

I read an article about Playstation Mobile, and it had this image:

http://www.playstation.com/psm/images/psm.jpg

Play, Create, Deliver!? Sounds familiar! Could we be playing the next LittleBigPlanet on our mobile phone or tablets!?!



Nah, probably not. :p They did once say that they wished there was room for more mature content on LBP, so they're probably doing a new IP that doesn't suffer from these restrictions.

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Originally Posted by Rogar

Could we be playing the next LittleBigPlanet on our mobile phone or tables!?!

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LBP on a table? I thought tables were for putting food on, or for spilling the coffee.

Plenty of games are played on a table, no problem. But that would mean.. they must be working on a boardgame, or maybe a tabletop roleplaying game! With burlap miniatures! You heard it hear first, folks!

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Originally Posted by RockSauron

LBPness

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Originally Posted by Rabid-Coot

Don't call it that.

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LittleBig...
Thanks.

On topic:
If it's "more ambitious" than LBP, it has to be big. The only thing I'm worried about really is how they're going to come up with another character as lovable or enjoyable as Sackboy. I thought they couldn't fit any more into LBP2, but seeing as they have to come up with something totally new AND beat LBP, it's like trying to guess what's at the edge of the universe.

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Originally Posted by Sackpapoi

LittleBig...
Thanks.

On topic:
If it's "more ambitious" than LBP, it has to be big. The only thing I'm worried about really is how they're going to come up with another character as lovable or enjoyable as Sackboy. I thought they couldn't fit any more into LBP2, but seeing as they have to come up with something totally new AND beat LBP, it's like trying to guess what's at the edge of the universe.

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I'd say "restaurant", but that's at the end, not the edge.

256-player battles where you debate across a table. Features character customization. All players play as Sackboy stuffed with fluff, love and ice cream.

Concept art:

http://cl.ly/ITyu/mediamoleculeconcept.png

HD: http://cl.ly/ITyu/mediamoleculeconcept.png

http://cl.ly/ITru/cdcgIV.png

HD: http://cl.ly/ITru/cdcgIV.png

http://cl.ly/IU8Q/battleship_poster.png

HD: http://cl.ly/IU8Q/battleship_poster.png

(I also made a version which says LITTLEBIGPLANET™ instead because it makes sense either way.)

.zip collection of all three images in HD: http://cl.ly/ITpi

Oh my goodness,I hope it has a create mode :D

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Originally Posted by Lbphart3

Oh my goodness,I hope it has a create mode :D

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No it doesn't, but it has a crate mode :)

Whats the differents lol.:eek:

If they're being exceptionally ambitious, I could see them making a tool in which creators could create a game, then publish to the PSN. Assuming a PS4 release, and that Sony embraces the success of The play/create/share model, I wouldn't be surprised to see something being tied directly into the PS4 console. With the release of the PSV developer tools (whatever it was called), it's not TOO far of a stretch.

With some nice MM storyline, and perhaps full 3D gameplay, that would be a nice stepping stone to success for the new console.

I suppose it'd be something like an app store for the PS4, but with games made by people playing MM's game....?

Too ambitious? Probably :p

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Originally Posted by Lbphart3

Whats the differents lol.:eek:

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Crate mode goes with the Table game that everyone else was talking about. It's a pun :D

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Originally Posted by SSTAGG1

If they're being exceptionally ambitious, I could see them making a tool in which creators could create a game, then publish to the PSN. Assuming a PS4 release, and that Sony embraces the success of The play/create/share model, I wouldn't be surprised to see something being tied directly into the PS4 console. With the release of the PSV developer tools (whatever it was called), it's not TOO far of a stretch.

With some nice MM storyline, and perhaps full 3D gameplay, that would be a nice stepping stone to success for the new console.

I suppose it'd be something like an app store for the PS4, but with games made by people playing MM's game....?

Too ambitious? Probably :p

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That's pretty much what I was thinking. Could be good. Anyone else have thoughts on this, and not the table thing?

Oh lol..Aint they going to announce it next week on what there working on..I think the 14th..?http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/...unced-project/

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Originally Posted by Lbphart3

Oh lol..Aint they going to announce it next week on what there working on..I think the 14th..?http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/...unced-project/

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I think so, can't wait to hear more about it.

I'm hoping for a play/create/share title like LBP, but with full 3D gameplay instead of 2.5D. Nothing like lbp karting with it's horrible, restrictive and unwieldy create mode, but something well designed and user friendly. I'd love to be able to make Tomb Raider style adventure levels in 3D. I'm not yet sure whether I would prefer to see a game like that come packaged as the next phase of the LBP franchise, or as a completely new, original title, but either way...3d play/create/share is top of my wishlist.