LBP: Creator Pack 1 Out Today

Ok, I’ll admit it: I haven’t touched LittleBigPlanet in at least a few months. . . don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore the game (one of my top games from ‘08 for sure), but I just haven’t had the chance to get back to it in the midst of newer releases this year. That said, with the lack of any major LBP news lately aside from the weekly DLC costume downloads, today’s Playstation Store update should tickle the fancy of all you level creators out there with the release of Creator Pack 1.

Unlike the paid content DLC, this pack is a free download that offers a few tweaks and changes to level editor tools. What changes? Well, here it is, straight from the developers themselves:

• 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)

If there’s anything I regret about playing LBP, it’s my inability to gain a coherent understanding of the level creator tools – which, ironically enough, was one of the most hyped features that I was excited for last year. I don’t know if its the lack of time spent or my ADD-like patience with it, but I just couldn’t get into the mode as much as I thought I would. . . ah well, at least there will always be a steady stream of quality levels to find every time I boot LBP up.