With a little luck, the network will pick me up.
This 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...
Tags: Iron Man 2
May 10th, 2010 at 1:26 am
Goodluck dude, and remember on your last day you have to say.. and I’m completely quoting the Kurgen from highlander here (he hates being misquoted) .. “Its better to burn out than to fade away!” which he said a few scenes before being decapitated by a French accent wielding Medieval Scottish Native, but hey i had a stab at this comment and I’m not sure how it turned out but no one can say i didn’t try.
And remember if you ever need anything, you know where to find me.
I have plenty of videotapes.
May 10th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Holy shit, Dan, I’ve only just seen this. Congratulations and the best of luck to you, and I have no doubt that whatever you end up doing next, you’ll slay them.
Roads? Where you’re going, you won’t need…roads.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Oh wow! I just found out today that you weren’t at PPC from one of your (now Ex) clients. If it’s any consolation she is peeved that you’ve moved on, as she thinks very highly of you.
Anyway, I’ll echo the guys in wishing you a good journey. I’m sure you’ll make it an exciting one and find many a fortune (or make your own with double-sided sticky tape).
Hi-ho-silver an’ away.