Little Big Disapointment

There are various similarities and differences between the tool kits in "World builder" and Little Big Planet. The notable limitations that both share are in textures and colors. You can only use what colors the tool kit gives you, an you can only use what textures were familiar and known to whoever created the tool kit. This similarities in limitations stops.

Although there was a time limit to the man's musings in "World Builder," the only other limit was his imagination; he could make any thing he wanted to with box modeling and other tools and methods common to any 3D modeling program; which is meant to be stretched. Little Big Planet, however, is limited not only to textures and colors, but to what objects the creator has already made and given the user to work with; one interesting perk is that objects can be resized to ridiculous proportions with out loss of visual quality. There is also a gauge which measures and limits what the player can do in the world creator, similar to that in The Sims albeit more lenient. Not to mention the fact that you are limited to a 2D side-scrolling interface.

Regardless of these limitations to Little Big Planet, the players seem to stretch and apply their given abilities to produce interesting levels. There are even snippets of interaction meant to emulate the player imposing their will upon the level, but those are only provided solely by what objects the level creator wanted to player to use.Hard as any one tries, however, Little Big Planet just does not come away with "worlds" created, only shortly engaging stories created by the levels.

Even in "World Builder" there was no world created. What was created was a desperate man's endeavor to make a place where his comatose love could exist again. Although she could interact with any object she pleased there, and in any way she wanted to, there were no people to interact with. Even in her brief presence before her love, she only observed and did not truly exist, and so the world he made was not truly a world.

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1: This video playlist
2: World Builder
3: Little Big Colossus
3: Little Big Calculator