Seventhfury Studios Blog

The folks over at Media Molecule are really amping up the goodies for Little Big Planet in April. Here’s a solid list of what Little Big Planet fans can expect this month, provided by the Little Big Planet Workshop:

April 16th : Monkey King Costume : FREE
The costume competition winning design from Asia - the Monkey King. Contains :

April 16th (provisional) : 1.12 “Cornish Yarg” update : FREE
This update addresses several outstanding issues with the game :

• There is a new music player which lets players choose their own music from the XMB to play during create mode and in their Pod
• Improved decoration mode makes it easier to customise your Sackboy
• Option to delete all (unhearted) community objects and photos
• Option to select whether to automatically collect community prizes and photos
• A number of improvements have been made to make profiles more robust and to recover from certain errors
• We now support Japanese and Korean IME for text chat.
• Emitter prediction has been improved (this should help fast-moving projectiles e.g. in MGS levels)
• The player proximity switch now has a ‘require all’ option in it
• An option has been added to cycle between various level information when viewing community levels on the earth
• Various LittleBigStore improvements

April 23rd (provisional) : Creator Pack 1 : FREE
A collection of new tools and functions to help aspiring creators: 

• Infinite lives checkpoint
• Visibility tweak option on certain joint objects (to hide these in Play mode)
• Global settings object (to trigger lighting changes)
• Tetherless jetpack
• Angle range proximity switch (additional functionality on proximity and magnetic key switches)

April 23rd : Heavenly Sword Mini-Pack : $2.99
Contains :

• Nariko costume : Nariko sword, wig, dress
• Kai costume : Kai hat and hair, dress, gloves, boots, skin
• 27 Heavenly Sword theme stickers

April 30th : Egyptian Mythology Mini-Pack : $2.99
Inspired by Egyptian mythology this pack has costumes for Anubis and Sekhmet along with 10 theme stickers to help you add some Egyptian flavour to your levels. Contains : 

• Anubis costume : Anubis mask, Anubis robes
• Sekhmet costume : Sekhmet mask, Sekhmet robes
• 10 Egyptian theme stickers

May 7th : Norse Mythology Mini-Pack : $2.99
Continuing our mythological theme this pack contains Thor and Valkyrie costumes and Norse themed stickers.

• Thor costume : Thor’s helmet, beard, belt and wristguards, legs, Thor’s Hammer
• Valkyrie costume : Valkyrie helmet and braids, Valkyrie jerkin and cape, Valkyrie boots
• 10 Norse theme stickers

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