Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | 18:05 BST
Phil Harrison’s influence on LittleBigPlanet was “pivotal”
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
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Posted in: Atari, PS3, Sony
Tags: Alex Evans, littlebigplanet, media molecule, Phil Harrison
6 comments
#1
pjmaybe
26/06/08, 5:14 pm
AGH! Don’t tell me he had anything to do with it! I was looking forward to it!
#2
Gamoc
26/06/08, 5:18 pm
LittleBigPlanet = one word, stop splitting it up!
And this doesn’t surprise me, Phil was fantastic.
#3
Gamoc
26/06/08, 5:21 pm
Ah, that’s better – how strange
#4
Tonka
27/06/08, 4:02 am
A little friendly advice to the editor of VG247. Make the text “link” a link. It is usability 101.
#5
patlike
27/06/08, 6:05 am
Tonka: Eh? Doesn’t that link work for you?
#6
morriss
27/06/08, 8:20 am
Works fine for me!
Tonkalol