LittleBigPlanet is causing a bit of a ruckus with some fans who claim that the recent free Sackboy costume designs are rip-off copies of their competition entries.
A Sony rep admits this was ”going to be a possibility when we ran the costumer competition”, but they deny copying. Designers are still angry at lack of credit.
It’s just a big fat coincidence explains Sony’s Sam_Protagonist, saying, ”this was always going to be a possibility when we ran the costumer competition - releasing new costumes which are similar in theme to ones that were entered.”
”Here’s the fact of the matter,” he added, ”The art team who are responsible for designing new original (ie unlicensed) costumes were involved at the very final stage of judging, by which time the number of entries had been whittled down to 10 from each batch of entries (Europe, Japan, USA).”
”If at any time we take inspiration from a costume competition entry that didn’t win overall we will contact the creator directly.”
Below is just one example of this ‘coincidence’:
Source: CVG
