Peter Molyneux made an appearance at last month’s Technology Entertainment and Design conference (TED), to demo his Milo and Kate game.
Molyneux appearing more grounded than in past talks about Milo goes into more depth about the underlying technologies. The ridiculously large tech demo, which despite Microsoft’s Greenburg denials will be made into a full game,utilises Kinect so users can interact with characters via voice and gestures.
For people interested in technology it really is an interesting talk, particularly when Molyneux goes on to talk about Milo’s mind existing purely in the cloud, and how the more you and everyone else around the world uses it, the cleverer it gets.
Molyneux finished off the talk by saying that a tutorial section will last for less than an hour, which obviously enables you to learn how to interact with the characters, but in part only exists for the game to learn about and recognise you. After that the game moves ‘off rails’ and opens up so players can take Milo on more, darker, adventures.
The word on the street is that something in game form is expected to be launched in time for Christmas 2011.
Source: TED.com.
stonyk
I just dot get it. That looked the most boring of interactions ever. “do you want to squash snail, yes or no”. As said before I have more interesting interaction phoning bt help line.
MrTwP
maybe the game will determine how much fun you have on how you play it? say kill your parents and eat them?
trollmonster
ha ha this is rubbish!
Hopefully “dark” is when the other children at school pick on him so much he decides to kill himself. Let’s hope it happens before Autumn 2011 so he’s not about for Christmas!
Kronik76
‘Please buy Kinect… pretty please! We promise that it will be able to do an infinite number of things… we just, erm, we just can’t show you yet…’
fps_d0minat0r
he knows there was a huge row online about if it was fake or not but then why is he ignoring the part about no-one cares about this crappy tech demo and we want better games?
oh well, atleast theres gonna be a lot of funny videos about this on youtube after its released so even if you dont buy it, it will still be a laugh.
yogh_wayne
The tech might be interesting, but seriously… who would want to play this?
hazelam
not quite as impressive as what they showed last year is it?
i guess when it’s genuinely running for real it can’t do quite as much as they made it look like it could.
still, pete, don’t change, keep pushing and don’t settle for shoving out generic fps number 193639 of this year.
icuyesido
No thank you Microsoft… I don’t play games to pretend I’m not playing a game, I play games to pretend I’m an F1 driver or an assasin! lol
EntitledToOpinion
This is actually very interestng. If the tech works in the manner they’re suggesting it could turn out to be one of the best global social experiments ever. If not the first. Definately something to keep an eye on anyway.
seedaripper1973
This is bollocks. (i’m sorry but i dont believe a word of it)
Klart
Not impressive at all. The idea is interesting but what he let us see… what a bore…