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Peter Molyneux: a fallen god of game design seeking one final chance (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not a chance Molyneux is basically a video game scam artist now.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 months ago

He hyped up a huge groundbreaking project for like a year... and it was a cellphone game that a 16 year old could make in 3 months.

Oops thats just the teaser for the real game!

Which came out years later and was basically what a 21 year old could make in unity in about 6 to 9 months, and was never finished.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think he has a budget problem mostly. He has executed some games acceptably, but mostly when the teams were smaller and cheaper. He is an ideas guy you want to pair with an experienced implementer and a pile of money..... And maybe a PR team 😆

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would have agreed with you seven years ago.

But how the whole Curiosity Cube BS, how he handled the reward to the winner and its followup game just came off slimy.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't hear about that, what happened?

[–] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

There was a 'game' about a cube that you tapped to get to the center wondering what was inside. If I recall each install only had a few taps. Only the person to finally open it would get the prize.

The prize was supposed to be the opportunity to make a game with him and all of the profits of something, then it became just a game he would make and like $1000000, then he basically ghosted the winner without paying him. He made a shitty beta half-game thing after like 8 years, then finally just said it was done without actually making anything really playable or even charging for it.

There's viddocs on YouTube about it.