Yesterday was surreal.
Early morning we got that word that “someone important” was coming to visit and were instructed to remove any offensive items from our offices – mouse mats containing phallic images were the main concern in the Aardman Digital office.

Photo courtesy of JamFactory and Aardman.
A couple of hours later, there are lots of important-looking people securing the doors and the Prime Minister has popped in to talk to us about games. Turns out he has an iPad and is a big fan of Shaun the Sheep – so naturally we let him test Home Sheep Home 2, a game we currently have in development.
I’m certainly not a Tory supporter and so I was very surprised at how star-struck I became during his visit. Annoyingly he was very charming, enthusiastic and seemed genuinely interested in our work – I suppose you don’t become Prime Minister without being able to win favour with your public. Our head honcho Miles puts it more eloquently below - I’d thoroughly recommend reading his blog for a full account of the visit.
There was a tricky moment for me when PM declared himself a Shaun The Sheep fan (he has 3 kids right in our core Shaun The Sheep age group) and he played our Home Sheep Home browser game and if there was a moment when I nearly tore up my lifetime Libdem membership card that was it.
But just a swiftly as he arrived he was gone – I went round the building thanking the anarchists and revolutionaries for not heckling and flour bombing him and we got back down to the business of earning a crust, selling our wares moaning about politicians.
So there you have it. Incidentally, we were also visited that week by a Yorkshire Tea van handing out free cuppas and a man who had created a real-life Wallace & Gromit motorbike and sidecar. Just another typical week at Aardman!