Peter Molyneux’s Most Infamous Cancelled Game Would Have Allowed Players “To Hang Out With Someone That Loves You”

“We didn’t finish the experience. But it was a magical thing”.

Peter Molyneux is one of the most famous game designers the industry has ever seen, and has been involved with seminal titles like Populous, Black & White, Theme Park and Fable. He’s also known for hyping up his projects, sometimes to the point where they couldn’t possibly satisfy his lofty vision—and perhaps the most infamous example of this is the unreleased Kinect game, Project Milo (also known as Milo & Kate).

Shown in 2009 as a technical demonstration of Kinect’s motion-sensing and voice-recognition capabilities, it focused on the player’s interactions with a young boy. To this day, there are many who claim it was complete fakery, and at the time of its announcement, Molyneux himself admitted that “most of it is just a trick; but it’s a trick that works.”

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“We didn’t finish the experience. But it was a magical thing”.

Peter Molyneux is one of the most famous game designers the industry has ever seen, and has been involved with seminal titles like Populous, Black & White, Theme Park and Fable. He’s also known for hyping up his projects, sometimes to the point where they couldn’t possibly satisfy his lofty vision—and perhaps the most infamous example of this is the unreleased Kinect game, Project Milo (also known as Milo & Kate).

Shown in 2009 as a technical demonstration of Kinect’s motion-sensing and voice-recognition capabilities, it focused on the player’s interactions with a young boy. To this day, there are many who claim it was complete fakery, and at the time of its announcement, Molyneux himself admitted that “most of it is just a trick; but it’s a trick that works.”

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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