Seriously, your comment was moderated with the use of the TWA Coffee word just like the rest of us, so I suspect you’re OK.

Well,… OK …apart from the ‘dressing-up in a self-made costume of a video game character’ thing, of course.

If it keeps you out of the job market & leaves a gap for me to find something at present, I’m all for it. Keep going with that.

If I find that the PS3 is not getting a price drop to fall in-line with the ridiculously cheap Xbox 360 Arcade & Elite models (I wonder why? Scared, perchance, Microsoft?) so that the budget for the same man is available, then that’s something else altogether.

(All: “That’s something else”)

Have fun… but don’t come near my children, or you’ll find out why they call you ’sackboy’…

BFN,

fp.

Oh, and if Crowd DNA wanted me to make stuff for them for actual money I’d be totally interested in talking to them about that!

To be honest there’s not a lot you can do to convince me otherwise, so if you can be flattered by that then cool for you.

Unfortunately, if you’re genuinely someone who felt compelled to create a buzz-website for a Sony game in the run-up to it’s release, then I guess I’m just wrongly tagging you onto a company that has used this this technique before. Guilty by association, not your fault.

The facts are: Sony employ / use viral marketing through methods close to those you’re using. And if indeed you’re the innocent ‘fan’, humbly generating traffic to your own site, then if I were you I’d hop over to http://www.crowddna.com and see if you can, at the least, get a bit of commission for you efforts. (If you’re not already of course!) Their “craft kids” would be all over this..

I’m pretty stunned that sites like Kotaku and Three Speech (TS I’d never heard of) linked me up and when I got a trackback from Three Speech I even emailed them to bitch about watermarking my photo. My only connection with LBP is that I kinda know a guy called Jim who works for Mm and if he didn’t link me from the Mm website I doubt you’d ever have heard of makeasackboy.com

As the site explains I made the costume for Bestival and must have fielded 100 enquiries over the two days that I was wearing it as to what I was supposed to be. I initially told a handful of people about the game but soon tired of that as each day wore on and said “I’m a toy” which satisfied no-one

I randomly bumped into a group of folk from Sony marketing who approached me by saying “Are you a Sackboy?” - a question I was delighted to hear - and they all seemed pretty chuffed at the effort that I’d made and said that they’d reward me with some merch (when the game comes out I guess). I made the how to site when I returned to help send traffic to my portfolio website. Simple as that really.

Let’s be frank, it’s not the first time Sony have used 3rd partys to promote their products (Erm. ThreeSpeech) like that god-awful “All I want for Xmas is a PSP” website.

Fair enough it might not be directly related to “Three Speech”, but I’d be surprised if this doesn’t stem from Crowd/Ramp or any kind of Sony employed agency.

Come on lads, fess up..

I’de happily dress up in that suit any day of the week!