Edge sat down with Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans do talk about LittleBigPlanet.

LittleBigPlanet seemed robust even when we played it a while ago. Can you throw whatever you like at it without it falling over?

Not always, but everything in our game is user-generated, so even the developer content actually goes through the user-generated content pipeline, which means that literally everything you do is live. There’s no compile step, there’s no running it through an exporter – basically, the goal was that you’re editing with both hands on the controller. Our tools are completely different from a traditional game. Accidentally, by nature of being user-generated, we went a totally different route and it paid off by being this iterative thing in which I can literally load a texture in Photoshop and it updates live in the game while I’m drawing on the texture.

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If you can’t go to the Pop Up Shop in Manchester, here’s some more pictures so you know what you’re missing.

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Remember the Game Jam that Sony promoted at Parsons Design School? MTV Multiplayer posted a bunch of pictures from the 24h event.

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Remember the LittleBigPlanet print ad challenge? I made one myself, here it is.

Click it to see the big picture (takes a while to load). I would love to see that in a magazine.

After the release of the UK LittleBigPlanet cover, we now have the North American cover.

ThreeSpeech revelead the UK cover for LittleBigPlanet. Click it to enlarge.