Phil Harrison’s influence on LittleBigPlanet was “pivotal”
June 26th, 2008 @ 17:12
Alex Evans, co-founder of Media Molecule has told GI that former Sony head - and now Atari shoulders - Phil Harrison’s influence on LittleBigPlanet’s early days was “completely key and pivotal”.
“Obviously that then transitioned into Sony, and especially the team at Liverpool, and Michael Denny - I don’t want to downplay their roles as well. But certainly with Phil, at the very beginning, the amazing thing was that he got it,” said Evans.
“We pitched much more of a platform game, the physics and so on, and he was very instrumental in telling us to think about what it would mean to have user-generated content - to think about what that means for the community.”
This is where we say “more through the link” and actually mean it.
By Mike Bowden
Posted in: Atari, PS3, Sony
Tags: Alex Evans, littlebigplanet, media molecule, Phil Harrison
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June 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
AGH! Don’t tell me he had anything to do with it! I was looking forward to it!
June 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
LittleBigPlanet = one word, stop splitting it up!
And this doesn’t surprise me, Phil was fantastic.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Ah, that’s better - how strange
June 27th, 2008 at 4:02 am
A little friendly advice to the editor of VG247. Make the text “link” a link. It is usability 101.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Tonka: Eh? Doesn’t that link work for you?
June 27th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Works fine for me!
Tonkalol