Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet 142
jamie pointed out a really impressive creation from the LittleBigPlanet beta. The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tools. A player called upsilandre used 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, and a variety of other objects to create a functioning calculator that will do decimal/binary conversions as well as addition and subtraction. The creation does well to illustrate the potential for amazing creativity in level design. Another user recently designed a level to play the Final Fantasy X theme song. LittleBigPlanet is almost finished and set to be released later this month, though the controls may be refined in a future patch. We recently discussed a student level-design event at the Parsons New School for Design and Technology.
Two words: (Score:5, Funny)
Fuckin'. Awesome.
I knew a low-level understanding of computing must be useful for something! ;)
This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Someone has spelled out "BOOBLESS" on said virtual calculator. This comes 3 seconds after the level went public.
Re:This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Update: someone else in littlebigplanet has made a virtual XBOX 360 using just 3 red lights.
Re:Two words: (Score:4, Funny)
So I've gotta ask... (Score:1, Funny)
A player called upsilandre used 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, and a variety of other objects to create a functioning calculator
How many MPG does it get?
Boob-gate rocks LittleBigPlanet (Score:5, Funny)
In light of this newly discovered piece of illicit content, the ESRB has fined Media Molecule and slapped the game with an M rating.
Jack Thompson was quoted as saying "Oh, what cruel irony is this!? At a time when Sony has unleashed this family destroying game murder-simulating calculator on our children, I am no longer a lawyer!!"
Color me unimpressed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This just in (Score:4, Funny)
Ah ... so its even fully functional.
(yes ... this was a joke, I know XBoxes don't experience the RRoD as often as they used to)
Re:Dwarf Fortress (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, Dwarf Fortress... The text-art game that can make a Pentium 4 cry.
Re:Color me unimpressed (Score:3, Funny)
> The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tool
But I work with a system like that every day. It's called C++.
Re:Levels of abstraction (Score:4, Funny)
Kind of makes you wonder what happens once we design a computer fast enough to accurately simulate physics exactly as in our universe.
How would we limit the universe? Maybe just create a pacman-like solution where hitting the boundary sends you back to the other side. Maybe increase the size of the simulation as you can throw more computing power at it. You'd need a method of interacting with the matter in the universe to make sure the new space is utilized, right?
Why not just create some shit that doesn't ruin the rest of the simulation by interacting in any fashion other than pushing the various systems away from each other so your ant farms don't get too close to one another and fight.
what?
Re:Two words: (Score:4, Funny)
don't worry
there will be a cheat code that lets you use an FPGA instead.
Re:Turing Machine (Score:2, Funny)
Seconded, provided it's a Universal Turing Machine that they then use to re-implement Little Big Planet.
I'm dropping $400 (Score:2, Funny)
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