With a little luck, the network will pick me up.
Monday, May 10th, 2010This is the final chapter of our Iron Man 2 international online campaign – a free PlayStation Home mini-game giving each of Home Europe’s 1m+ users the chance to win one of just TEN super-exclusive Iron Man suits.
A PPC/VeeMee co-production, it launched just over a week ago, and from what I can gather it’s been pulling quite a crowd, which is no less than you’d expect from what Joystiq has described as ‘maybe the greatest thing to ever happen to PlayStation Home ever’.
From a personal point of view it feels like a major achievement, representing as it does the culmination of so much of the more interesting and experimental work we’ve been doing over the last few years, spun together into a wickedly compelling and cost-effective promo.
Or maybe that’s just a sense of fin de siècle, blended with a heavy dose of hubris. Because, as it turns out, this is my final project at PPC. I’ve got a month’s notice to see out, after which I’ll be setting sail on the high seas of independent consultancy, freelance production and general digital jiggery-pokery.
A bold decision on my part, given that neither Emma or I now has a steady income, nor any savings to speak of. And that we have two children to nourish, and a mortgage to pay off. And that the ‘Eurozone’ – whatever the fuck that is – looks like its about to collapse, just as Britain finds itself devoid of the majority government capable of guiding us through times of such excrutiating economic uncertainty. A brave decision. Foolish even.
But fortune, as we know, favours the foolish. And my instincts, moral and tactical, have always stood me in good stead, career-wise at least. Everything’s telling me that this is the right thing to do, and the right time to do it.
I should reach the frontier in about six months. With a little luck, the network will pick me up.
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off...
