LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet, abbreviated as LBP, is a series of puzzle platforming and creation video games originally developed by Media Molecule (although it has also been worked on by other companies, mostly notably Sumo Digital) and published by Sony under their PlayStation line of systems. It debuted with the release of LittleBigPlanet 1, release in 2008 for the PlayStation 3. It has a heavy focus on user-generated content, series and as its tagline, "Play, Create, Share", suggests, the series focuses on its three core elements: the ability to play levels (whether it's from the official story mode or from the community) alone or with friends, creating your own custom levels, and sharing said levels with the community.
The official servers for most of the games, minus LittleBigPlanet 3 for the PlayStation 4, were shut down back in Septemer of 2021. Almost three years later, the servers for LBP3 were shut down in April of 2024 for good. Although there is no official way to play the games online anymore, people can still play on unofficial private servers, such as Beacon, Refresh, Infinite, etc.
If it wasn't incredibly obvious, LittleBigPlanet is an incredibly important part of Cliveism - in fact, it is responsible for the creation of the most important aspect of the entire religion, that being Clive Handforth. Every Cliveist, especially its founders, have some sort of connection to their series, and for some, it's their favorite game franchise of all time. 
== Games ==
=== LittleBigPlanet ===
The first game in the series, originally released for the PlatStation 3. The feature features a lot of staples that would appear in pretty much every major installment of the series, save for a few spin-offs. The game's story follows Sackboy as he traverses through eight different areas set in Craftworld, each one based on a specific location or region from real-life, and created by a Creator Curator. While each area cointains their own little self-contained story, the overarching story is that a weird cardboad creature thing by the name of the Collector, the Creator Curator of the Wilderness, stealing a bunch of materials from the previous levels. He later kidnaps some of the characters from the previous levels, which Sackboy then rescues. Our hero then proceeds to fight against the Collector, ending up winning, before its revealed that the Collector only stole things because he didn't have any friends. He is eventually forgiven, and ends with everybody becoming friends.
Of course, the Story Mode isn't the only thing LBP has to offer; there is also Create Mode, where you can create your own levels using materials you collected from Story Mode and upload them for other members of the community to play (or at least you could before the servers got shut down). The online community aspect of LBP was pretty much what it was most known for, and the same goes for the rest of the series.
=== LittleBigPlanet PSP ===
Technically the second installment of the series, although better classified as a spin-off, the game features a lot of the same features as LBP1, including the Story Mode, Create Mode and the online community levels. In comparison to the first game, however, LBP PSP is severely held back due to the limitations of the PlayStation Portable, which results in the game having its own particular quirks, such as only having two layers, the lack of a traditional pod, the different controls for Create Mode, etc. Also in contrast to the original game, LBP PSP was developed by SCE Cambridge Studio (later known as Guerrilla Cambridge) instead of Media Molecule. The game came out in 2009, a year after the first game.
The game's story mode has Sackboy take a vacation after defeating The Collector. Sackboy starts in Down Under, an Australian-themed area, and later learns that there will be a massive carnival in Brazil. He is then tasked to go around the world and gather the Creator Curators of each of the game's areas in order to get them to attend the carnival. Like LBP1, all the areas in the world are based off of a real-life country, place, or region. Interestingly, the story mode lacks an actual main antagonist.
As mentioned before, the game also let you create your own custom levels and upload them online for others to play; however, the game's servers were shutdown all the way back in 2016. Furthermore, the game lacked any multiplayer functionality, making it impossible for other people to play together.
=== Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves ===
Another spin-off, released back in 2010 for the PlayStation 3. The game is played with two to five players, and requires a PlayStation Move and a PlayStation Eye Camera in order to play the game. It's basically a glorified demo for the PlayStation Move with a prehistoric theme.
=== LittleBigPlanet 2 ===
=== LittleBigPlanet Vita ===
=== LittleBigPlanet Karting ===
=== Run Sackboy! Run! ===
Released in 2014 and the first of the two LBP mobile games, Run Sackboy! Run is a pretty simple side-scroll endless runner. The game has you play as Sackboy as he runs away from the Negativitron, all while collecting score bubbles (which are used as in-game currency) and stickers, and going from The Gardens to Avalonia (should've been The Factory of a Better Tomorrow smh) to the Canyons. Collecting certain stickers would actually give you a special costume or shirt that you could actually use in either LBP2 or LBP3, although for several reasons, this doesn't work anymore. The game lacks any kind of create mode or multiplayer aspect, which to be fair isn't really surprising considering the type of game it is. It was also released on the PS Vita in 2015.
=== LittleBigPlanet 3 ===
=== Sackboy: A Big Adventure ===
== Unreleased games ==
=== LittleBigPlanet Hub ===
== Relation to Cliveism ==
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