You may be familiar with Peter Molydeux, the parody Twitter account of veteran game developer Peter Molyneux. Known for throwing bizarre and often hilarious game ideas out into the world, there is now a game jam being set up in his honour.
I gotta say, I think that Chris Hecker makes some good points when he calls the video industry out for a lack of variety. Too many games are the same old thing! We need new, fresh ideas! We need smart, creative thinking! In short, we need Peter Molydeux.
What if controllers had feelings? What if every time you yanked a power cord, your console started to scream? What if your games could cry?
So, after a decade working almost exclusively with Microsoft for Xbox consoles (and occasionally the PC as well), Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux has called it quits, and will soon be joining British start-up 22 Cans (or 20 Toucans, if you prefer).
He’s back: Fake Peter Molyneux’s Twitter feed is once more live and ready to Tweet out funny, fake, absurd, sometimes interesting game ideas, as predicted. Follow him.
Peter Molyneux satire Twitter account remains shut down, but the man behind the parody Tweets tells Kotaku he’s working with Twitter to try and get it back up and running.
It is one of the most followed Twitter accounts in the gaming world and it doesn’t belong to Miyamoto, Cliffy B, or Warren Spector. With almost 15,000 followers, Molydeux (with a D) is a parody account that draws its inspiration from the overly-ambitious ideas of veteran game developer Peter Molyneux (with an N), and while it is best known for its tongue-in-cheek commentary of the games industry, Kotaku discovered that there’s much more to it than 140-character hilarity.
