Imagisphere Recap 2025
Imagisphere Recap 2025 - January 2, 2026
This article covers a list of all the recent changes for both the Wiki and our Community.
This year has been big, and I mean BIG in terms of prototypes and prerelease content, so let's take a look at what's happened for us this past year!
Prototype Releases:
Releases from the past year (2025)
LittleBigPlanet™ 3 Alpha 2
- An alpha build of LittleBigPlanet™ 3 containing various differences, most notably being the inclusion of early Bunkum Lagoon levels.
- Wiki Article: LittleBigPlanet™ 3 (2013-11-18) Alpha
LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Deploy Build
- News Article: LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Deploy Build Released
LittleBigPlanet™ 1 + 2 Concept Art
- We released a huge collection of concept art for the first and second games in the LittleBigPlanet series -
there's so much interesting stuff to look at relating to development!
- Some concepts date all the way back to 2006 for the original game, the second game has concepts dated as far back as February 2009.
- All of the concept art is available to view and download from the wiki and the Internet Archive.
- LBP1 Concept Archive
- LBP2 Concept Archive
- Alongside the concept art are some early trailers, scene concepts, and other videos; these are included in Internet Archive release and can be seen on the Imagisphere Youtube Channel.
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LittleBigPlanet™ Developer Beta
- A private developer beta build of LittleBigPlanet™ for the PlayStation 3, limited to the first world of the game and create mode.
- This build is notable for currently being the earliest playable build we have recovered, and how it contains the Ice Hazard, among other things.
- Wiki Article: LittleBigPlanet™ (2008-07-09) Private Developer Beta
LittleBigPlanet™ 3 Pitch Build
- An early build of of LittleBigPlanet™ 3 that was pitched to Sony and accepted to be worked into the finalized version of LittleBigPlanet™ 3.
- This build is cut down for the pitch, but is notable for containing some early character models and the Sacktown background.
- Wiki Article: LittleBigPlanet™ 3 (2013-04-30) Pre-Alpha
LittleBigPlanet™ 2 September Pre-Beta
- A partial pre-release build of LittleBigPlanet™ 2 that would have been built right before the release of the Public Beta Trial.
- The recovered data is only partial but has a few work-in-progress levels for Davinci's Hideout.
LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Post-Final Debug
- A LittleBigPlanet™ 2 debug build dated August 6th, 2014, taking place after the game's final update, notable for containing a few unique debug options.
- Wiki Article: LittleBigPlanet™ 2 (2014-08-06) Debug
Minor Releases
- Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves Prototype - Nothing new for content!
- Nightmare Before Christmas DLC Partial Data - Some recovery data for a development prototype of the kit.
- LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Supermassive Marvel Partial Data - A partial build containing some work-in-progress data for the LittleBigPlanet™ PS Vita Marvel Arcade Pack, built for PS3.
- DC Comics Gamescom 2013 Demos - Two separate prototypes for DC Comics to be shown during Gamescom.
- LittleBigPlanet™ 3 Gamescom 2014 Partial Data - Recovery data for a development prototype of LittleBigPlanet™ 3 during Gamescom with some unique files.
Outside Releases
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- There weren't many outside releases this year, but a couple from a user named KeRbDoG who released some content on HiddenPalace.
Move Pack Development Prototype
- A developer disc build containing pre-release content for the LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Move Pack - notably has some early costumes and music.
- You can find the build on HiddenPalace here: LittleBigPlanet™ 2 (May 18, 2011 prototype).
Debug LBP2 Beta and N-Dubz Music Video Levels
- We had a chance to scrape data from the kit KeRbDoG dumped and there was a debug prototype of the LittleBigPlanet™ 2 Beta 1.04 build before its release -
- along with some levels and profile data by Steve-Big-Guns for the N-Dubz Took It All Away Music Video.
- You can find the build on HiddenPalace here: LittleBigPlanet™ 2 (December 5th, 2010).
Upcoming Releases for the next year (2026)
Teasers...
- We'd like to take some time to tease a new prototype... a very small but unique build that we have't seen before, from 2011...
- We already teased with some images of recovery data that we've been working on, if you know you know...
- We'll release this prototype and some others alongside it very soon, so look forward to it!
Stuff we're Still Working on
- With how much stuff we recovered and released this year, it's gotten overwhelming for us and we need to take a break once in a while.
- There's a few things that we have yet to finish recovery for that are still on the backlog, but we're hoping to get to this next year:
- LittleBigPlanet™ Vita PS3 Build Data - From the February Prototopia collab, has several hundred file revisions of user levels to sort through (yikes!)
- LittleBigPlanet™ 2 DC Comics Data - From the February Prototopia collab, has several hundred file revisions of user levels to sort through (yikes 2!)
- Revisiting Old Drives - There's a few old drives we need to revisit, either for content that was missed or otherwise (something new?)
LittleBigPlanet™ Promotional Media Archive
- We recieved a large collection of unsorted promotional media (renders, icons, etc. over 10 gb!) this past year that we still have yet to bundle up
- it's a lot of content, and we have to sort everything before we bundle it up for a release.
- You may have noticed we have many official renders and graphics on the Wiki now, and we sourced those from that archive.
- We'll be releasing the media for this in due time, but it's not as high of a priority as build recovery, so it will take us a while.
Contributing to Imagisphere
Imagisphere Kofi
- As much as we love recovering and releasing prototypes for this series, aquiring said-prototypes isn't free, and we're starting to run out of funds.
- We're reaching out to YOU, yes you for donations to help us purchase any new development kits we find and help pay for the recent ones we aquired this past year.
- Our good friend HunterTheRestless made a promotional animation covering the topic, which you can watch here: The LittleBigPlanet Community Needs YOU.
We need the Water Beta!
- If you or someone you know has had access to a license for the Water Beta and Online Create Beta - please reach out to us!
- We don't know how long we have left to get this particular prototype, and the previous lead we had on getting the license vanished without a trace.
- This is the last beta prototype for the entire series that needs to be recovered, so contact us if you're able to help before we run out of time!
Imagisphere Wiki Updates:
We've reached over 1200+ Articles!
- Since last time, we've met our goal of doubling the article count from 600+ articles to now 1200+ articles!
- It's now official that we have more information here than on the Fandom Wiki, so let's keep going to try and be the best wiki we can be!
- We couldn't do this without you all, and I'd like to take some time to highlight some of the more active wiki members to appreciate their hard work, check them out:
- It will be a long time until then, but let's look forward to the journey to 2,000 articles - if we can even get there?
Imagisphere Discord Server Updates:
Channel Updates
Workshop Channel Replaced
- In the middle of the year we archived and split up the Workshop channel - a place to share mods, mod tools, and related - into smaller multiple, more focused channels.
Mod Tools
- #mod-tools is a forum channel to share development tools or useful resources relating to modding.
Mod Releases
- #mod-releases is a forum channel where you can release your finished mods.
Mod Showcase
- #mod-showcase is a forum channel for sharing mods you're currently working on more in depth, so you have a chance to show stuff off before you release it!
- This channel can be very nice if you want people to get interested in something you haven't finished yet.
We need your help!
- Since we've had some trouble this past year on the Internet Archive with some of our releases being taken down by an automated service, we're going to look for other places to release prototypes.
- There's a lot to keep track of, so we're asking for your help in case reuploads are missing content or otherwise very broken (not every reupload is done properly!)
- We've added the #report-missing-prototypes forum in the discord server - you'll be able to report if a reuploaded prototype has something wrong with it there.
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