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Media Molecule‘s Creative Director, Mark Healey, and Art Director, Kareem Ettouney, had an hour to try and explain the look and feel of LittleBigPlanet — it took them about two seconds and one trailer. But the talk went on for well e19 over an hour as the two creative types gushed about their award-winning innovation. LittleBigPlanet might not have walked away with Best Visual Art — but the innovation, technology, game design and the fact that it was a debut game all contributed to the art of the game.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-littlebigplanet-win-big-at-gdc-awards-5185493 What made it fun to watch — aside from the super-cute Sackboy videos they showed to illustrate the concepts of visual versatility plus cohesive style — was how passionate both Healey and Ettouney were about creativity. It’s that kind of passion that leads to butting heads, though. “At the height of [the great Sackboy debate], we wanted to kill each other,” said Healey. He explained that Errouney would probably take him out in about one hit — but luckily it didn’t come to that. The great Sackboy debate — where they had to figure out how to have a blank canvas for users to paint on that was also betdog iconic — was resolved by another guy on the team who took each person’s individual design and somehow combined them into a sbfplay concept that he then animated and set to Bob Marley’s “Could you be loved.” “The final one looks like a bastard soon of all of them,” Errouney said. The bottom line for LittleBigPlanet was having a game that felt somehow familiar and yet empowering — something that was nostalgic but totally new. The visual style of the game is very much a part of that by presenting you images of things you know — cloth, buttons, stickers, gardens — and by integrating that into the innovative part of the game. “People see the game as a platformer with a level editor,” said Healey. “It’s actually a lot more than that. It’s becoming a game creation tool [that anyone can use].” So while it may be a crime that they didn’t go home with Visual Art, it’s certainly no accident that they won for Innovation and Game Design. And Technology. And Debut.