Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet

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.

Comments

Two words:

[bigstrat2003]

Fuckin'. Awesome.

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

Re:Two words:

[krakass]

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.

This just in

[philspear]

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

Re:This just in

[philspear]

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

Boob-gate rocks LittleBigPlanet

[nobodyman]

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!!"