Palit and AMD have partnered with City of Heroes® to offer the “Create a Character” Costume Contest!

This contest was started at the crossroads between City of Heroes Costume Creator and ATI’s signature character, ATI Agent Ruby.  You see Ruby, the character featured in a number of ATI Radeon™ technology demos has been known to swing a sword or two.  As such, she translated well into a City of Heroes character!

After making Ruby into a City of Heroes character, we wondered just what other unique characters could be made!  It seemed a natural progression to see who could make the best and most interesting, unique character of their own!

Over the next two weeks players can submit screenshots and bio of their character and be entered into the Palit/AMD City of Heroes “Create a Character” Costume Contest to win great prizes!  This is a skill based contest based on the creative use of the City of Heroes Costume Creator to design a hero or villain outfit along with the backstory of that character.  Entries will be judged primarily on the quality, cohesiveness and creativity of the character’s costume. Secondary considerations will be (in order): the character’s biography, the quality of the submitted screenshots and the appropriateness of the character screenshot’s background. To enter, contestants must:

1) Send an email addressed to cohsubmissions@plaync.com with the subject heading “Create a Character Costume Contest” that includes the following information:

•The name and server of your in-game hero/villain. Please attach the screenshot of this character to the email. Note: Should you win, this is the character that will receive the in-game title!
•If you are a member of the City of Heroes Message Forums, please include your registered message board display name.
•Your real name (first/last).
•Your age.
•Your full mailing address -- street, city, state/province, zip, country of residence.
•Your contact phone number (This is required for the shipping of prizes. It may also be used as a back-up method of contacting you – but will be used for no other purpose).

2) Contestants may submit up to five attachments along with their email. Four are required:

•Three screenshots of the contestant’s in-game hero/villain that best display’s their character’s outfit. All three screenshots should be the character in the same pose, just taken from different vantage points.

Consideration should also be given to the screenshot’s background and having it fit with the character’s story.
    •Full frontal shot
    •A side shot
    •A rear shot

 •One screenshot of the contestant’s in-game biography.

In the game, go to the menu and then to your ID and write out your character’s biography.  Space is limited to what is available in game.  You can view your bio for the screenshot by going to the in-game menu and choosing to display your personal info from the drop down list.
    
 •The 5th and optional attachment can be an action screenshot of the character.

For more information, go to: http://www.cityofheroes.com/community/contest_14.html