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23 May 07

Interview: Little Big Planet from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog

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In the UK, we'll probably adopt a system similar to YouTube and Flickr where we post-moderate. Children won't be able to see sites that haven't been moderated. Once it's been moderated they'll be bale to see. For adults, un-moderated sites might have filters which warn people that there may be content that's offensive to some people. But Media Molecule have thought long and hard about this and there are tools which allow moderation very quickly, allowing Sony to scan a level for images and other content that's appropriate or inappropriate. You don't wan to nip someone's creativity, but by the same token when you're involved in publisher of any sort, you've got to be conscious of all the users. Sony will obviously do everything they can to protect the users.
How do you imagine people will use the games industry's first mainstream independent publishing platform?

We've had an approach from a developer in the US who wanted to know if they'll be able to design a level for the game. Of course they can! Once the game's released anyone can design. We've also had a couple of bands who are interested in designing their own levels. They want to have a presence in an online community where they can give away stickers, unique images, music that can be downloaded. A reward at the end of a level. Some of the legalities about downloads are a little bit sticky at the moment, but if an unknown band or artist wants to make its products known, they can do it through us.
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- Obviously there are going to be sophisticated users who will make incredible things because they'll know how to create textures and images, import photos, videos, audio files. They'll know the things to do to make their contributions incredible, but at the same time incredible things can come from simplicity. Someone can do something unexpected which might spark a whole string on the community. It's going to be emergent.
- As a proponent of "user-generated content" (or whatever you want to call it), I believe that giving the design reins to the consumers will cause an explosion of innovation in ways that creators never imagined. In the case of games, my hope is that a title like Little Big Planet will shake the games industry out of its sequel-laden comfort zone and kick-start a new phase of interactivity. So I corralled Leo Cubbin, the Sony bod in charge of the forthcoming social network/game design platform and asked him a few difficult questions.

11 Apr 07

Gamasutra - Take-Two: GTA Our 'James Bond', Nintendo Support Vital

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ourth, Take-Two will be revitalizing is process for greenlighting games to ensure that all titles in development have "market potential," and cutting those that don't meet the company's demands early. As part of this, Zelnick said that key franchises for Take-Two already in development, including GTA 4, BioShock and Manhunt 2, had already been looked at and were shown to be on schedule for 2007.