So as well as making music I also do a bit of programming and some other creative stuff. My latest and biggest project has been an application called Sackpad. There is a game for the PS3 called LittleBigPlanet (click the link to learn more about the game) but you basically play as a character called Sackboy and you can create your own levels and share them with the community.

Recently, Media Molecule (or Mm as they are usually referred to by, the creators of LittleBigPlanet) released a new mode for the game called “Online Create.” This mode actually allows you to create levels with people from all over the world. A friend and I run a podcast called Sackcast, which consists of about 10 members at the moment. I am the co-leader and Shermzor is the leader. Sackpad is part of Sackcast, and us guys over at Sackcast realised that there would be a few issues when trying to create with people on the other side of the world. A few of them were:

  • Communication issues (lag, microphone etc..)
  • Planning problems
  • Coming up with ideas mid-way through creating

So we decided to create a system which would allow you to plan your level out on your PC, then send it over to your friend so that they can make some changes on the level, and then they could send it back to you to review the changes. Then both people could print out the plan of the level and then take it to their PS3′s so they both knew what they were working on. Each person could work on a different section, as 4 people are allowed into online create mode at once on LBP. This is the main idea of Sackpad. It seemed like a good idea and would help the community a lot when it came to creating online, so we went through with it. Sackpad is currently in beta testing. Here is how it all began:

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