A LittleBigPlanet retrospective and other trivia: meet Sackboy’s ancestor, Yellow Head
The road to what we now know as LittleBigPlanet was surely a very long one, with its many ups and downs – not to mention u-turns too, as noted from the recalled discs. Now that the game is very much out there already (having fun, are we?), it still pays to look back on where the game’s been. This isn’t much of a news piece, but rather, more of a retrospective. Join us as we take a trip back in time, complete with some interesting trivia you might not have known about the game!
The road to LittleBigPlanet‘s release was surely a very long one, with its many ups and downs – not to mention u-turns too, as noted from the recalled discs. Now that the game is very much out there already (having fun, are we?), it still pays to look back on where the game’s been.
Prompted by this post at ThreeSpeech made today, we’ve decided to use this opportunity for some trivia too. As you may have guessed, this isn’t much of a news piece, but rather, more of a retrospective.
Below is a video taken from the early years (circa 2007) of LittleBigPlanet. It shows a prototype of the game, complete with Yellow Head, the pre-cursor and ancestor of what we now affectionately call Sackboy.
Some other interesting trivia that might save your life one day:
- The idea for the game was first discussed by Media Molecule co-founders Mark Healey and Dave Smith after watching Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Howl’s Moving Castle.
- In its prototype stage, the game’s working title was “Craftworld”.
- Control design was first implemented using a PS2 controller connected to the PC. Almost akin to controlling a Katamari, Yellow Head’s right arm was controllable by the right analog stick, while the left arm, the left analog stick.
- When LittleBigPlanet was first presented – this would have been during GDC 2007 – the game had only gone less than one year into development.
So where does this bring us now? Seeing LittleBigPlanet in its infantile years sure makes you think up of a lot of other things in the future: for example, I believe Media Molecule might want to rack up on some sentimentality and actually bring back Yellow Head here as a Sackboy costume. That’d be way cool!
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