Create Mode is the second highlighted element of the entire LittleBigPlanet series.
Overview[]
In Create Mode, you are granted the ability to construct your own creative levels with the tools you've received via: Story Mode, or from Tutorials you've completed (LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet (PSP), and LittleBigPlanet 2 respectively).
Create Mode is not just restricted only to you, but local, online, or both types of players can cooperatively help create in the same level, at the same time!
If you're happy about your level's condition and setting, you can publish your level on your Earth, where your friends and complete strangers will be able to play. It will also show up on the Newest Levels section by the time you publish it.
Tools and Objects[]
In Create Mode, your Popit Menu will be expanded to have 2 additional icons, Goodies Bag, Tools Bag, and Global Stuff (The expection is LittleBigPlanet). These 3 aspects are the foundation for creating levels.
Goodies Bag[]
The Goodies Bag is the menu for choosing materials, objects, objects you've saved, and objects you've received from Community levels that contain Prize Bubbles.
Tools Bag[]
The Tools Bag is the menu for choosing logic components, such as an AND Gate, gameplay tools such as a Checkpoint, and so on.
Global Stuff[]
The Global Stuff is the menu for changing elements of the level. This could mean changing the lighting to day or night, adding and changing water height, and even changing the background itself.
Tweak Menu[]
In Create Mode, tools (from your Tools Bag) and some materials/objects (from your Goodies Bag) have Tweak Menus. The Tweak Menu is like a settings menu for many tools, materials, and objects! You can open it by pressing while aiming the Pop-It Cursor at a "tweakable" thing.
In the thing's Tweak Menu, you can edit certain properties belonging to it. For ropes, strings, and other such connecting wire, you can "tweak" their tension, length, or, for some, make a duration at which it will rise and fall. For bolts, you can tweak their tightness, and for motor bolts, you can adjust the speed at which it will spin. For lights and special materials from the Goodies Bag, you can tweak their color and brightness.
In LittleBigPlanet lingo, it is called "tweaking" an object when you change it using its Tweak Menu (such as making an LED light the color red, or speeding up a motor bolt to make an epic race car). To learn more about the Tweak Menu, you can play the Create Mode Tutorials, or you can experiment on your own and learn what you can do. There are also plenty of great resources to learn more about tools, materials, and objects, such as YouTube videos and LBP forums.