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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

Competition: Design a Piñata, enter the game!

To celebrate the release of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, we've teamed up with uber Brit developers Rare to give you the opportunity to get into the game. Actually in it, folks. How? Well, let me tell you..

The sim has a particularly clever special feature: exclusive, official Viva Piñata cards can be downloaded from the 'net and waved in front of the Xbox Live Vision Camera to, "affect the weather, the time, garden items, piñatas, you can do just about anything," according to Rare's Ryan Stevenson.

Now, you can develop your own, and that's quite nice. But how about having one specially developed by Rare for you? Kinda like the one developed for me, above (note the hair and the tiara)? Oh yes.

All you have to do is pick a Piñata from this lineup (click 'Select the item in the Piñata Vision Card', come up with a theme for his/her costume and provide a unique, creative and appropriately Piñata-y name. That's it. Easy peasy.

Send in your entries to gamesblog +at+ gmail +dot+ com by Monday 8 September and you shall be rewarded with your own, exclusive Viva Pinata card and a signed copy of the game.

Go go go!

We'll throw in a signed copy of the game

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