Video: LittleBigPlanet Calculator Fun
Ah, LittleBigPlanet, how your level design lends itself to the most ingenious of minds. You tease us with unlimited gameplay and design, beckoning us to create the extraordinary, and to make the ordinary in the most unexpected of ways. The video above does more of the latter as it shows how someone made a simple adding and subtracting machine as a LittleBigPlanet level. It looks fairly simple at first, until the creator goes into the level editing mode. That's when you see the hundreds of pistons, switches, and wires used to create something seemingly so simple. Take a look at the video and you'll see why what is now a Texas Instruments TI-85 use to be something that took up a whole room at a warehouse. Though looking at his design, I can't help but think there has to be someway to simplify it, like introducing a simple binary adding machine using NAND gates and such. NAND gates are part of the LittleBigPlanet toolkit, right?
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 7 October 2008
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ha ha ha. I know what a NAND gate is.
ok, so this is going to sound crazy, but i would totally not want this as dlc. sorry, i'm not sure why anybody would.
now maybe if they made a graphing calculator, and you could play tetris on it.
NAND gates are possible. One level I saw (I'm in the beta) was just a big collection of all the possible logic gates for folks to use.
As for Tetris: they already made a working version of that - the Media Molecule staff did it for a lark. All pistons and gears and Babbage Engine amazement.
LittleBigPlanet: for all your steampunk needs.
M0taku -
this is a user-created level. it's not something they're charging for. how's this a bad thing? it just shows that pretty much anything can be made with a little creative imagination...
You know, I never would've figured I'd see a NAND gate mentioned on this blog. You've just managed to combine three mostly-separate aspects of my life into one story: being gay, being a gamer, and being a computer engineer. Well Done. :-)
~ G.