Fable developer Lionhead was working on an ambitious Kinect-controlled game, Milo & Kate, and developing new engine technology to go with it. They showed off some of that new tech at GDC and, well, it’s really, really good looking.
Call it Project Milo. Call it Milo & Kate. Call it, last we heard, cancelled. You can also call Lionhead Studios’ attempt to use the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor array to let players interact with a virtual boy a more ambitious effort than anything else we’ve seen using Microsoft’s popular new tech.
One of gaming’s big dreamers, game designer Peter Molyneux, showed us Project Milo – a controller-less game about a virtual boy – two Junes ago. There was potential. There were hitches. A year later, Milo’s made a lot of progress.
The virtual kid lives, but won’t hatch on Xboxes this year. The unreal Milo & Kate that lets Xbox users talk and gesture to a virtual boy is still planned for release, despite an earlier report to the contrary.
