Peter Molyneux is a computer game designer and programmer, responsible for well known "God games" Populous and Black & White, among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as Theme Park and most recently, The Movies.
Lauded as one of the world's most brilliant and inventive game developers, Molyneux has nevertheless acquired a reputation for issuing over-enthusiastic descriptions of games under development, which are found to be somewhat less ambitious when released. The most well-known case of this was with the game Fable, released in 2004 without many of the features talked about by Molyneux in press interviews during development. After the release, Molyneux publicly apologized for overhyping the game [1].
On the 6th of April 2006, Lionhead Studios was bought by Microsoft and now forms part of the Microsoft Game Studios. At E3 2006 Peter Molyneux gave several interviews in the press, in which he stated that "now his Lionhead Studios is part of Microsoft, they're more independent than when they were an independent developer."Kikizo interview
Game Credits[]
- Populous
- Powermonger
- Populous II
- Syndicate
- Theme Park
- Magic Carpet
- Hi-Octane
- Dungeon Keeper
- Black & White
- Fable
- Fable: The Lost Chapters
- Black & White 2
- The Movies
- Black & White 2
- The Movies: Stunts & Effects
External links[]
- MobyGames' rap sheet on Molyneux
- Project Ego.net Peter Molyneux Info
- The Worlds of Peter Molyneux from Wired.com
- Keeper Klan's article about Peter Molyneux
- Peter Molyneux's Fable - Interview with game designer Peter Molyneux about his Xbox game Fable from Geartest.com
- MP3 audio interview with Peter Molyneux from public radio show / podcast The Sound of Young America
- BBC News UK - Call of honour for UK games maker
- Game guru recounts money worries