But the search still does need work, and MM knows about it.

There used to be nice posts and constructive posts. Now it seems all the posts are just whatever thought just popped into your head.

Is it really necessary to write a whole post about LBP’s search function? Really?

It’s the feature which most hurts LBP for me – unless you use some other way to find out the name of a level, you will never see them – you just see the same boring levels over and over on the first few pages. With so many levels uploaded it’s always going to be hard, but 10-20 levels on a slow-loading planet was a silly idea that was never going to scale to even 1K levels, let along 50k+.

Lots of people don’t bother tagging levels either – not surprising since it is quite clumsy and slow if you want to get a specific tag (why not show all tags at once?), and the default is to do nothing. So the tag system is knobbled and barely useful.

I’ll try searching for my level again tonight and see what happens. What search words did you use, just curious.

A lot of people that have created longer more sophisticated levels are ‘advertising’ their levels in the forums. Isn’t it interesting that LBP is emulating other industries where the popular music and films are not necessarily the most interesting or creative.

I just searched for your level and it does show up. It always appears near the location on the planet you choose to publish (in your case it’s near Japan).

To get it on any of the cool levels pages it needs to be:
1. Published or Republished in the last few minutes.
2. Getting many plays, hearts and stars.
This system generally favours levels that are easily accessible (ie. dumbed down).

Please test my level out. Search for…
Fire Swamp Part 1 (it will be floating in the Pacific, just north of Australia)

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