*Update* GDC: PlayStation Home Tools and Details
- Posted February 21st, 2008 at 16:26 EDT by
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Today we attended Sony's PlayStation Home session where Senior Producer of Home Tools and Support James Cox discussed how developers can use Home to create public and private spaces for gamers to explore. Also covered in the session was discussion on the development of Home Tools themselves, with v.8 out now, and v1.0 to soon be released. With each update, Sony hopes to make development easier and more flexible for 3rd party and 2nd party Home developers.
To begin, the first key feature shown was how PlayStation Home tools will allow developers to create custom clothing, custom animations, furniture, and avatar heads for Home users. An example could be having an unlockable Sweet Tooth head from Twisted Metal for your Home character. Now while this is a cool feature, gamers must know that these heads are static and are not customizable.
The custom animations also sounded interesting as developers can give Home characters custom animations for using special items, playing mini-games, or wearing specific outfits. An example of this could be could be a Home character performing a signature animation well-known from another title.
The next features that were shown were using scene tools for creating private and public spaces and how to create a menu system for Home users to jump from Home into multiplayer games.
The video below shows how users will use the in-game PSP to launch into multiplayer games.
*Update*
Developers will be allowed to create Home Interactive Items. The first item shown was something called a "Bubble Machine" which users can pull out using their in-game PSP menu and drop on the ground. Other items talked about included a virtual camera, tv remotes, and footballs. Developers can produce items to both sell or giveaway. Also items in the game can be interactive (such as the football which uses Home physics) and be picked up and dropped. Items can have animations, collision, and audio. (Developer shows images, inlcuding a scene with 20-30 Home users dancing with Bubble machines all around)
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NitroMikeo
- 2:42pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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The coolest thing for home ever. Would be you go into a huge shopping mall sytle area which is the playstation store. U pick up games e.g warhawk and put it in your bag. Then u buy it at the counter. AWESOME NESS!
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GreyFox666 |
GreyFox666- 2:45pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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Rumors are going around on the english forums that there is a possible open beta download coming today... could this be true... jesus christ GDC is causing alot of sh1t...
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dericb11 |
ErazerSe7en- 5:56pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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At first I really want this to come out but now I just want to slap sony. I mean all we got is a lot of soon to release promises w/o anything. But wait MS does give there people dates. Sony if you take any longer I know the Wii will price drop and screw you real good. So give us the damn beta already forget a full blown release.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 6:12pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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Woah psu,how did u take these shots,while breakdancing?(Seriously,i you guys could up the quality and down the blurriness in Photoshop or something,that would be great)
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wx_wolverine
- 6:12pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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cool things but i would much like to know when is going to be released?
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brandonh33
- 6:13pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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Uhh nice video...... hahahaha are you serious? I could just go onto youtube, Start to shake my camera while videotaping, talk like a brit about the proper way to clean your pool filter and it would be exactly the same! I am sorry but I just thought that the vid was pretty funny.
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mikehunt92
- 8:17pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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yea enacku it would be great i thought of a shopping mall setup like that once were you walk in and its has stores like ea sports insomniac ect. stores and a psn store were you can buy psn games or download demos and walk to a counter and buy it from a cashier it would by sweet....hey why dont we all go to the playstation blog and send e-mails to sony telling them bout our idea
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terminator12259 |
tacitassassin25- 8:47pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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home is going to be amazing, i cant wait, goodbye gaybox
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BD_BLACKAZZ |
BD_BLACKK- 9:23pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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Now this will definitely shut up all the haters out there ...... I LOVE SONY !!!!!!!!
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betatesterlord
- 10:03pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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I'm one of the beta testers and when it came out Sony said there was going to be two closed beta tests, an open beta test, and then the full release. We are in the second beta test now and edging closer to the open test. Soon the full release will be here and we will all be meeting, greeting, and annihilating people all over home.
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edward_moffet |
edd- 5:08am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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jicaly you dont have to do the whole virtual thing thats what the virtual psp is for it streamlines everything into a menu for people who dont want the extra stuff i mean yeah youll still have an avatar and stuff but you dont have to put effort into it and its not replacing the psn so dont worry about it
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jicaley |
UKMF-Jay- 5:28am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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I know you dont but why dont people go out and socialize. At the end of the day what will you have to show for yourself in life after sitting inside playing Home for hours a day.... NOTHING! I enjoy a good online game session as much as the other person but an online life? I may be missing the point but I think its a bit weird. Just give us an in-game messgae/chat/friends list and call it a day.
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Muzikguy |
Muzikguy- 8:46am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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I wonder if Home will be connected between the regions or separate. You know, like EU people can visit JAP people's apartments and so on. I want to go to visit some hot asian's apartment, lololol! (Yes, I know it's a virtual world but hey, it'd still be fun) All kidding aside, it would be cool to visit friend's places across the world in Home.
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Punisher99
- 11:09pm GMT - February 24th, 2008
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lol. Why do so many people here call home a game??? Its not a game. Its an extension of the PS3's online service.
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Gomersoul |
Gomersoul- 8:35am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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i have to agree with jicaley. this is well over hyped. why do people think it would be great if the playstation store was set out like a real store? just go to a real store!! ffs sony should concentrate on bringing games out instead of useless ego massagers like this pish! then again i live in england and we only just got the wheel, we've been given a release date of 2010 for gravity. if we're really lucky we might get electricity by the time the olympics are here!!
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Deusthousand |
Deusthousand- 9:24am GMT - February 26th, 2008
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You know whats funny? Almost every game on the xbl is uber laggy, even the old school arcade games. I can play tekken online virtually lagless(and free).Crapbox was next gen for about 9 weeks.Kingdom hearts 1 os unlike any game created for the 3fixme.Period.
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