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Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet

Posted by Soulskill on from the impressive dept.

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.

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  1. Two words: by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuckin'. Awesome.

    I knew a low-level understanding of computing must be useful for something! ;)

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    1. Re:Two words: by krakass · · Score: 4, Funny

      Great, now other games are going to try to one-up them and Half-Life 3 is going to make you design a 386 processor in order to solve a puzzle.

    2. Re:Two words: by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

      don't worry

      there will be a cheat code that lets you use an FPGA instead.

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  2. This just in by philspear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone has spelled out "BOOBLESS" on said virtual calculator. This comes 3 seconds after the level went public.

    1. Re:This just in by philspear · · Score: 5, Funny

      Update: someone else in littlebigplanet has made a virtual XBOX 360 using just 3 red lights.

    2. Re:This just in by powerlord · · Score: 3, Funny

      Update: someone else in littlebigplanet has made a virtual XBOX 360 using just 3 red lights.

      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)

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    3. Re:This just in by Muad'Dave · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tasha Yar wants to know "How fully functional?"

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  3. So I've gotta ask... by geedra · · 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?

  4. Boob-gate rocks LittleBigPlanet by nobodyman · · Score: 4, 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!!"

  5. Color me unimpressed by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I owned my first calculator 30 years ago and implemented my first one in BASIC not long after. If it's only just reached the capability of a machine with just a few K of RAM and a BASIC interpreter then it can't be very impressive. What is LittleBigPlanet anyway? The codename for the latest OS from Microsoft? Trust the /. editors not to provide any context.

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    1. Re:Color me unimpressed by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 2, 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++.

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  6. Re:Dwarf Fortress by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, Dwarf Fortress... The text-art game that can make a Pentium 4 cry.

  7. Re:Levels of abstraction by Spazntwich · · Score: 3, 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?

  8. Re:Turing Machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seconded, provided it's a Universal Turing Machine that they then use to re-implement Little Big Planet.

  9. I'm dropping $400 by wernox1987 · · Score: 2, Funny

    On a Blue Ray player and taking the ability to play Little Big Planet as a bonus... Now if I can just get my wife to see it that way.