Interview With a Prolific LittleBigPlanet Content Creator 27
SlappingOysters writes "Ole-Marius Lakselv is going to be making games for a living, sooner or later. Under his PSN moniker of Geosautis, he has become arguably the most popular and famous LittleBigPlanet level maker in the world. His works, such as World of Colour and Haunted Mansion, are shining examples of what a talented user with a bit of time on his hands can build using LittleBigPlanet's powerful creation tools. Gameplayer has just interviewed him to get the full story on being an amateur developer making waves in LittleBigPlanet. The site has also awarded the game The Best Exclusive of 2008."
Re:Good money? (Score:3, Insightful)
In the shooter game market some got good enough resumes to get paying jobs out of their free work. I do not know if anyone has made significant money retroactively for what they did for free.
Someone doing work that is wholly their own can get some success if people will buy it but someone working on LBP or in the mod community has no legal revenue stream from that work.
Re:Content altering (Score:1, Insightful)
No, the worst thing for this game is Sony, period. Yes, the "delete with no recourse" thing is crap - apparently the official policy is that if anyone, anywhere, complains that it's offensive, it will be removed with no ability to respond. Which really isn't terribly surprising, considering they recalled the game because a few people complained about some words in a song.
But the fact that it's on the PS3 and not something like the Wii prevents me and pretty much everyone I know from being interested in this game. If it were available on the Wii, I'd get it in a heartbeat.
But it's not. It's stuck with Sony. And because of that, rather than getting cool downloadable content for free, you're expected to pay $2 to buy a costume that advertises another PS3 game. You pay $3 to get new level content to use in creating YOUR OWN LEVELS - they expect you to pay to create the very content they use to sell the game!
Its sales have suffered due to its ties with Sony. If anyone else were publishing the game, I might be interested, but as long as Sony is involved in any way with the game, forget it. It's not worth the pain.