Games legend reveals potentially his greatest game ever at GaME 2012 event.
During a talk at Imperial College London's GaME12 event, Peter Molyneux provided an exciting vision for the direction of his studio, saying he wants to use current technology in ways no one else has.
Legendary games designer Peter Molyneux speaking at the GaME 2012 event here in DoC revealed how his new studio, "22 Cans" is going to create his greatest game ever by rolling out a project called 22 Experiments, a series of digital releases leading up to the "final product".
The first experiment is scheduled to be released in six weeks time, however no platform is confirmed as of yet.
"We've got 12 people [in the studio] now, and I'm trying to push this to 20 people as soon as possible," he explained. "And then we're directing all of our staff at the moment towards these things called 22 Experiments, which are 22 experiments that we will release digitally on the journey onto the final product that we're going to make."
"Our whole passion [at 22 Cans] is to use some of the technology which is around in the world today in a single product and a single experience, in a way that no one else has used it," he stated.
"I am fed up to the back teeth of consuming other people's visions - of directors' and screenwriters' ideas of what a hero should be; of novelists writing stories that they think are good, but I think are rubbish. Why can't we have stories about me? I want to have my own unique experiences.
"When I put my son to bed at night, the best story I can tell is a story that I make up, and that's a story about his life. And he loves it. That's the story I want. I don't want another James Bond film, I don't want another Avengers."
He emphasized the new title is not a literal storybook, however.
"Please don't take what I've said too literally - it's not a storybook called ‘whatever your name is'. It's a bit more subtle than that," he said.
"I love this one thought, and I have experimented with this in previous games, that you find out more about yourself while being engaged with this experience than [you would] with anything else. And we all love finding out about ourselves - whether it's through personality tests, or someone turning around to you and saying X, Y and Z."
Peter Molyneux left Lionhead Studios in March to head 22 Cans.
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