It seems like Web 2.0 console gaming is now fully upon us. Recently we have seen Blast Works 'Build, Fuse and Destroy' for the Wii, a shoot'em up which asked its users to build and share their own levels.
But by far the biggest critical success so far is Little BIG Planet which the Guardian has said is the reason anyone should buy a PS3 right now. The game has sumptuous imagery, an amazing physics engine and looks a lot of fun but like Build, Fuse and Destroy much work has been put in by the developers to create a user toolkit to create new levels, that will in theory give the game a much longer lease of life, as users design, share and play each other's new creations.
Having seen the toolkit in action it looks like making new stuff in the game is pretty hard and will likely reduce the active audience considerably, but like the rest of the user generated world, maybe it only needs a few percent of super users to allow this game to keep on delightfully growing.
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