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I love little big planet i used to play it on the PS3, got to the 3rd last level played that level at least 50 times and never got over it.. basically gave up, i didn't even own the game but i manage to play it at my friends house from time to time.

So when the school emailed us and i saw this poster! I immediately wanted to join this competition, I had no idea what it was about except that i loved it and the word PSP caught my attention, I was curious to know if they really were making a psp version! i searched it up and found out it was true, the actual release date for the game is going to be Nov 17! I was just thinking WOW Cool are they really gonna have the game and let us use it before it gets launch?

Problem was that you needed a team! and i didn't have one, so i just went to facebook and posted it just to see if anyone else was interested, i got a reply from my good friend over here Doanna who's Singaporean too and said she was intending to join! and that she would contact me and sign me up! There was a few miss communications between the 2 of us and so i ended up entering the competition about 2 hours before it started! *apparently she's been trying to contact me, but i didn't receive any miss calls!*

So i got out of class from Intro to animation and headed down to The School and sat down next to my friend rather confused as to what was going on!I saw people psp and random photos of San Francisco on the wall - she then when on and said " its more complicated than you think!" so the competition is to create a game level using the psp" Here's the catch, we have to do it within 24 hours and our theme is gonna be cable cars!"

Then who ever wins will have their level uploaded and downloadable on the game community when the game is out!, "I have no idea if their even gonna give us any prizes"
She then when on and said, my friend kinda drag me into this, i don't think I'll have time i might just back out!"

This was what what i was thinking at that moment" Wow! 24 hours, i don't think i wanna waste my time on it, but its good exposure for Doanna, that's kinda cool.." you could add that to your resume"I don't think it would be good for me" but wait why are there Gamespot people and interviewers here ? is it that big of a deal ? " Well lets see what the people who were gonna talk about the competition have to say!




I guess there was no time to react and we got sucked into it pretty fast!, ideas started flowing into my mind, and the more i got the idea, that we had this game that wasn't even out yet.I was gonna touch it, be able to create a level and maybe win! The excitement was just building up! and no.1 I LOVE THIS GAME!

so we sat down over lunch briefly talk about our idea , they handed the PSP to me and told me to fiddle with it maybe even think about how to make a cable car!, cause they had to attend class!I knew Doanna but i didn't know at all where what or who this other guy i was working with but we clicked well and things started on a good note and continued to flow really well!

I headed home really excited, did what i could and started to relise the game had glitches, and the file i was fiddlng around crashed on me, that's when we knew we were gonna have a rough time! *apparently* they had to tweak the game so that we could have all the unlockables and create a level, Which made every thing 10 times worse for us!, things would automatically switch itself around, stuff would move and disappear, a lot of things weren't working right ! and during this whole 24 hours it crashed about 15 times on us where it would jam and then totally turn off the PSP, worst glitch i ever encountered was that everything was in the right place i was rather happy , and when i decided to start adding something everything just went wacko and blew all over the place! thankfully we manage to get around it!

So i left my house at 7pm and got over to Doanna's place to spend the rest of the night working on the idea, we only really started building our game set close to 12 midnight, mostly plotting down and getting the idea out was our main concern!

We all took turns to build the set, about 4 hours at the time, and the rest would either continue to work on the drawing or take a nap, i think i had only 3 hours of sleep not to mention the additional 3 hours of sleep i had the day before because of my assignments! But i wasn't tired at all, i was constantly excited, even when i took a nap and if i woke up for just a few moments I remember telling Nathan the other guy we were working with, to SAVE THE WORK! and then doze back to sleep..

By 6am we only had the base!~, we were more fighting with the program rather then working with it, spending most of the time fixing problems, we finally got the background fore ground and everything else lined up and finally working by 10am..



we headed down to the school because Nathan who was working for the gaming director had to start work, the both of them had already miss class because we needed to finish the game level!

we spend the next 2 hours adding detail like signs and random stuff that still felt out of place.. the last 1 hour was really funny and crazy! , we had to use stickers to paint the stuff, as well as add sound, it got to a point where me and Doanna just lost talking properly to each other and talk singlish like, AIYO JALAT! CAN LAR! ANYHOW ANYTHING NEBERMIND! JUST PASTE!, we got to a point where we just had to be spontaneous and just put whatever that felt right!

We ended up handing it in 10 mins before the dateline, so they were gonna judge the think and have the award ceremony at 7pm, at a bar called rue.

" i was like, OK what should i do now ? sleep ? i don't feel like sleeping ? go home ? i guess i could do that ? , but I'm excited ? never-mind go home try and sleep!" i ended up rambling about the event to my roommate had only about an hour of sleep walked around the house and waited till 6 got out, and finally got there at 7!


I must thank Karen and Dan for coming along with me, and being my photographer, also i guess support our team! normally i would be the photographer but i just pass the camera to Karen and said be my photographer for the night! , again Thanks! photos were beautiful!


so we socialise and made friends, it was so cool as it is already , i was having loads of fun and Obviously still really excited!


They had the other team's work set up at each of the tables in different corners of the room, I played the rest out and they were all really well done too, i don't know if i was just too tired or something but i kept getting electrocuted or was set on fire as i fell on to the booby traps..





We got interviewed by GAME SPOT!, and their gonna be talking about our game too! ON THE WEBSITE on the spot segment to be uploaded by this Saturday!




We also got interviewed by a representative for his company that was situated in London!





To be honest , i was excited because i had fun, i just wanted to keep adding stuff to the level!, and it was really addicting, further more i was actually playing a game for a purpose rather then wasting my time or let time past faster!, i had no idea i was gonna receive a psp Go , or that i was going to get a pre launch box set of the game!!! which i intended to buy when the thing came out!

Out of all the team there were only i think 3 girls participating out of which the other girl was in a team of 5 that had 2 others as support. Better yet, 2 Female Singaporeans :D,GO SINGAPOREAN GIRL POWER! - of coarse it wouldn't have been as powerful as it was with out chemical X! LOL Nathan!, it was really fun and enjoyable working with them, everything flowed like butter! and best part we had the best 24 hours creating the level!

I'll soon post the link of the game level that we created,

here's a link of a post that was written as everything was still on a roll!
http://www.examiner.com/x-13269-SF-Gaming-Lifestyle-Examiner~y2009m11d11-LittleBigPlanet-24Hour-Game-Jam-Session

http://www.examiner.com/x-13269-SF-Gaming-Lifestyle-Examiner~y2009m11d12-LittleBigPlanet-24Hour-Game-Jam-Session-in-progress




Everything happened so fast that, i didn't even get the chance to tell my parents i was entering the competition, or even tell them that i won! - they would find out soon enough :D

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