Milo & Kate creator Peter Molyneux has admitted that getting the game a commercial release is going to be difficult, due to the fact the player is interacting with a young boy. The game has been on and off for ages now – to the point where we aren’t actually sure if it’s a game or just a tech demo.
Molyneux has revealed that “three or four hours” of the game is “release quality” – but that he has “mountains to climb” to get it on shelves;
“I think [consumers will get to play it] eventually, I do.
There’s a lot of huge mountains to climb before that happens. The reason for that is it is enormously contentious for us to do a game, a story, an experience, about a boy. You are immediately appealing to all the dark thoughts of humanity.
I actually love that, the idea of being so contentious that it makes people turn around and say, ‘You can’t do a story about a boy.’ But, for me, doing that in that way is absolutely right.
After all, for me one of the best films I saw last year was about an old man and a Boy Scout. It was called Up (Pixar and Disney’s Oscar-winning animated film). If I described for you this story, ‘It’s about an old man and a Boy Scout, strangers meeting and living together and going on adventures, you’d say, ‘You can’t do that. It’s out of the question.’
What you look for in drama and story is uniqueness and you look for experiences that people haven’t had before and I think it’s good to get it on a contentious level.”
Is anyone really that interested anymore? The Milo ship is rapidly sailing away.
benny boy
I’m guessing the reason they are having so much trouble is that they can’t get it to work properly. It would take years to get something that is properly interactive like they were showing off at E3 last year.
Also, perhaps the recent videos showing that it sometimes doesn’t seem to work properly is something else they are trying to work around.
PoorPaddy89
Who the hell is Kate?
Serebii.Net
Comment of the week xD
I think Kate is Milo’s sister? :P
DRCD1
I thought she was just a female milo, like john and jane shepard (ME). Anyway, I wonder how would she react if anyone told her: “Kate, We HAVE to come back, WE HAVE TO COME BACK”. Could be a funny easter egg.
Harinero
Kate is Milo, after dark.
PoorPaddy89
Now that would be a plot twist!
X201
Kate is Milo’s dog
asoccer
Possible girl friend?
Kronik76
Kate is the origami killer.
ii3illy
Damn he’s got some issues he needs to deal with. All the dark thoughts of humanity revolve around stories about boys? I wouldn’t fancy being in his head for a day.
bunimomike
I don’t think he has any issues at all. What he’s trying to deal with is everyone else’s issues. We live in a sinister world at times and people may well not understand the innocence of it all.
Personally, I can’t wait to rub and tickle an imaginary child. Keeps me off of the streets.
PoorPaddy89
But if the AI is as good as they say it is, how long til he figures out how to call childline?
bunimomike
On form, sir. On form! Imagine a Milo that works that out and calls in the appropriate authorities whilst replying to said gamer “stop trying to hug me in my special place”. Ah, now I see why Peter Molyneck is worried. It’s about people like you and me! Hahaha!
Can I request that you change your name from PoorPaddy to WhoIsTheDaddy?
Mason_Mk
It looked interesting tech-wise, but who’s actually interested in playing the game? I don’t wanna be seen talking to a fake person on a tv and call him a friend.
cc_star
I must have misread what Milo was initially for, because I thought they were just tech demos, and the underlying libraries and cloud based learned AI would be made available in other forms to developers for real game uses.
Soild_Nat
Would it really be classed as a game? Cant we just take to real people every day and build relationships with them rather then some fictional boy?
It works at showing what Kinect is capable of, nothing more.
BioEye
Worst case scenario is that perverts stalk virtual kids instead of real ones.
Charmed_Fanatic
haha thats alot better :P
SmokeyPSD
Quite honestly, whoever thought that this was more than a glorified prerendered concept video.
retro_
kiddy fiddlers wet dream maybe. Can’t see this ever being completed and to be honest, who cares, it was all smoke and mirrors anyway. Move on, nothing to see here !
squashme
so the tech demos at E3 ect. have been in devolpment for years as thats how long it would take to get the game to work properly with Kinect so in other words the game’s been in development ever since Sony released the Eyetoy for PS2 lol proves Kinedct is just a copy of Eyetoy not that we all didnt know that already haha