Loot Interactive
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| Private | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Culver City, California, U.S. |
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Key people
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David Sterling (CEO) |
| Website | lootinteractive |
Loot Interactive, LLC is a group of developers best known for creating experiences and products for PlayStation Home. Previously part of Sony Pictures and later Sony DADC New Media Solutions, Loot has been an independent company since 2015.
Before Home's closure in March 2015, their products included premium personal spaces and different ornaments and costumes for the users' personal spaces and avatars. Their most significant contribution for Home was giving users tools to make machinimas. In 2012, Loot released their first standalone game, Forsaken Planet for Microsoft Windows. They have also released four games for Android and iOS. Since 2014, Loot Interactive has released ports of games for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita, such as The Last Tinker: City of Colors (2014), Q*bert Rebooted (2015), and Whispering Willows (2015).
Stage Sets were premium personal spaces where users, if they had a video capture system, could make their own machinimas in Home. The Stage Sets were available from the Home Estates store in Home's shopping complex.
The first Stage Set, the Living Room Stage Set from Loot, was made available on May 7, 2009. With the space included interactive lights, cameras, backdrops and film-related equipment to simulate a real-life studio production environment. The lighting and camera systems allowed for a wide range of desired angles, movements, transitions, and cuts and lens set-ups that allowed users to take control of the technical and artistic aspects. Twelve props and a director's T-shirt came with the space to decorate the set, and users had access to the tools necessary to create their own film when hooked up to a video capture system.
The second Stage Set to be released from Loot in joint with Atari and Terminal Reality was the Ghostbusters Firehouse (originally named the Ghostbusters Firehouse: On Location). This space was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters and its worldwide release on Blu-ray on June 18, 2009. The Firehouse personal space was a detailed replica of the three floor Ghostbusters headquarters from the original film. The space featured the ghost containment unit in the basement, the garage and office areas on the 1st floor, and the living room, laboratory, fire poles, bedroom and bathroom areas. It came with the first Stage Set's camera functionality, film props, and portable blue screens. The space also featured the Ecto-1 car that users could get in and by using the blue screens, make their avatar appear as if it were driving the Ecto-1. Another feature of the space was Slimer, a character from the film; users could fly around as him throughout the space. Twenty-one furniture items and ornaments, and a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man headwear for users avatars also came with the space. This Stage Set was released to North America on June 18, 2009. On April 15, 2010, this Stage Set was released to the European version and was the first product that Loot released outside of the North American version.
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