Clive Handforth - Blog Posts

I cannot take the Pre-Alpha cutscenes seriously when Clives face looks like this

is it just me or does it feel like the LBP community is slowly starting to make a bit of a comeback, idk

What are your thoughts on Herbert Higginbotham?

I absolutely love Higginbotham!! He’s gotta be one of my favourite LBP characters fullstop. He’s criminally underrated and I love his design so much and I honestly wish we got to see way more of him in game. I probably need to draw him more because I really don’t enough.

Quick fire round!! facts too short to write a big paragraph on.

- Higginbothams beta name was Hillary

- Negativatron was originally pink

- Avalon was originally an orange amplifier with blonde hair and the words ‘the man’ faintly across his speaker

- Eves asylum used to have whales in it, likely because a lot of Gustav Klimt’s art depicted a lot of sea life

- Copernicus was made quite late in development, there was a lot of different concepts before they decided on Copernicus one of which can be seen in the level profile pic.

- Eves eyes change colour depending on mood (not about the beta but just not very well known because she doesn’t show a lot of different emotions in game)

- A lot of concept art was drawn in crayon!

- There was going to be a lot more types of robotic enemies you could interact with. E.g a Metal Robot you could wind up.

Ask me if you have any LBP2 questions, I’ll probably be able to answer them. ^^

Hold on I have another fact 💀

The beta version of the factory of a better tomorrow was called the popov factory. This was likely a placeholder name however the popov was an early version of the meanie and it would have been a pink strange creature that possessed and took over sackpeoples minds, or in other concepts simply masqueraded as sack people. The closest thing we have to this in game that shows this is the creature stingers and horns, although recently people have found a ‘popov dog’ which was seen in some of the concept art so it is likely it was scrapped during the early to mid development stages.

For compensation of forgetting to post a fun fact yesterday, have some beta Clive pics because I found a beta Clive skin ^^ (the helmet one is my fav lolol)

Todays fun LBP fact: okay so not really a fact but me and my freinds liked this silly guy in that one manglewood level so we called him Barone, I’m probably gonna draw him n his gang :DDD

Clive’s fun LBP fact of the day:

this one is a bit more obvious, but casual players may not know this!!

Eves asylum is heavily inspired by Gustav Klimt’s work, specifically his golden age!! A lot of the original concepts were a kind of futuristic greenhouse style thing and they looked super cool!! I’m still glad we got the eves asylum we did, it’s so beautifully done. I presume they deemed the futuristic idea a little too similar to Henry’s garage, which eventually became Avalonia.

Hi!! I don’t know how to use tumblr so have some sillay clive doodles