Back in the saddle…

At last. Promised land!

Well, maybe I’m getting too overenthusiastic, but that’s due some fine dark beer I just had. Finally after some rather unfavorable talks with some perspective developers, I was signed by Cambridge based Frontier Developments. As you may or may not know, it’s the home base of one David Braben, the co-creator of the legendary Elite, the first game to use wire-frame 3D graphics, and so – a grandparent of our now beloved franchises. It was also a very ambitious space sim from which various successors took great inspiration from. The Times even went so far as too call it “probably the best computer game ever”. Probably :) Having been 26 years in the business, he probably watched more companies rise and fall, and people make names for themselves than Cliffy said “batshit” in his life. I actually feel kinda like on a Federation starship helmed by a famous captain figure (it remains to be seen if he’s more Jean-Luc Picard, Sisko or Kirk… just please not the *other one I do not wish to name*).

After the first day I won’t go exactly go looking in the crystal ball to unfold my great future, as some of us know this first hand – this is a very slippery business. All in all, I will say there are certainly great perspectives – both in terms of the project I’m working on (won’t say, so don’t even ask – even I cannot defend after a hundred ninjas *some* parties will send to my house if I let it slip) and people I’ll be doing it with (muchos importante).

What else is there to say… Cambridge is a quaint, beautiful and vibrant town I think I’ll like very much, and although I would rather not leave my friends and family back home, doing what you do best and enjoy doing is one of the utmost important things in life. So here I am trying to make a life for myself, as always, I welcome life as it comes. Cheers.

~ by Pawel Wyslowski on July 2, 2009.