Earlier this week I learned about a teaser website that Sony had put up with a countdown until more information would be released. The site was interesting because it featured what looked like a mobster doing what looked like knitting.
Given that the page is named "amimono," which is Japanese for knitting, I assumed that was what he was doing, until I saw it in action and realized he was actually crocheting. The little character he was working on, now complete, is known as Sackboy, the protagonist of LittleBigPlanet and the forthcoming LittleBigPlanet 2, which this site was promoting.
The new game has to do, apparently, with an interdimensional vacuum that begins to suck up the inhabitants of LittleBigWorld, as well as Sackboy's efforts to defeat the Negativitron before it destroys Craftworld.
None of this may interest the non-gaming geeks around here, but I still think it's cool that knitting and crochet, even in a sadly mixed way, could be used to promote a video game starring a knit character.
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Interesting side note to this: although there are words in Japanese for knitting and crochet, “amimono” (yarn + thing) is the general term most people use for both. It’s common to find “knitting” books that are actually crochet instructions.
I was wondering about that, so thanks for the info.
The mobster is crocheting, but Sackboy is a knitted product.