LittleBigPlanet Costume Competition - Dress up Sackboy!

We're hoping you can help Sackboy look his best when he appears in LittleBigPlanet this October, by designing a brand new costume for him or his more lady-like equivalent, Sackgirl.

LittleBigPlanet is a unique game, exclusive to PlayStation 3, combining an amazing platform adventure with a huge social community that will enable you to play, create and share your adventures with friends.

And like all great platform games, LittleBigPlanet has a hero. Meet Sackboy, the cool little character that explores the world with you. One of the things that makes Sackboy unique is that you can decide how he looks by changing his colour, costume and style.

We're hoping you can help Sackboy look his best, for when he appears in LittleBigPlanet this October, by designing a brand new costume for him or his more lady-like equivalent, Sackgirl.

Send us your inspired outfit ideas for Sackboy or Sackgirl, and Media Molecule will pick out the best ones and transform them into new attire. The winning design will be available to download FOR FREE from the PlayStation Store for use in LittleBigPlanet.

Interested? Wonderful! Read on for more information on how to take part...

How to take part

All you have to do is download the Sackboy template, open it in an image editor - such as Paint, Photoshop or Paintshop Pro - and draw on your costume design.

We're looking for imaginative and interesting ideas with a splash of Sackboy's endearing charm that suit the look and feel of LittleBigPlanet. So it doesn't matter if you're not the Leonardo Da Vinci of Photoshop, if your clothing concept is just a great idea, it will still be in with a good chance of winning!

Once your costume design is ready, just attach it to an email and send it to competitions@community.eu.playstation.com, with My Sackboy Costume as the subject line.

Hold on! Don't send it just yet!

Make sure you include the following information in your email too:

• Your full name
• Your date of birth
• Your country of residence
• Your PSN Online ID (if you have one)

The closing date for all entries is Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 23:59 GMT. Further important contest rules are at the end of this post – please make sure you read them otherwise your entry might be disqualified! And we wouldn't want that!

We can't wait to see what fantastic costumes you create... Good luck!

For more information about LittleBigPlanet, head over to the official website at LittleBigPlanet.com

Contest Rules

• Your Sackboy costume should be all your own work; don't use existing logos or designs, content or imagery created by someone else. So that means no Spidey or Mr T costumes, you crazy fool!
• Only one costume design can be submitted per person.
• Do not resize the template – 1200x840 pixels is just perfect the way it is.
• Only JPEGs will be accepted for your design submissions.
• No questionable content; by that we mean stuff that's illegal, gross or otherwise likely to give us nightmares.
• Further contest terms and conditions can be found here.

Important Information for Under 14s

Unfortunately, we cannot accept contest entries from anyone under the age of 7. If you are aged 7 to 13 you will need to ask a parent or guardian to send your costume design to us on your behalf. This is just so that we can be sure that you have their permission to take part in this design contest and for us to process your information.

• Your parent or guardian will need to send an email from their own email account to competitions@community.eu.playstation.com with your design attached, as a JPEG, and include the following information:
• Full name of the parent/guardian and their relationship to you
• Your full name
• Your age
• The name of the country where you and your parent/guardian live
• Confirmation from your parent or guardian that they are happy for you to participate in this contest, and that they understand that the information we've requested will only be used for the administration of the competition, which may include (if your design has been selected as a winning entry) the publication of a winner announcement on the competition web page stating your name and country of residence.