A Touch of Bullfrog

"There’s three central philosophies that will drive my next game…"

atouchofvertigo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:50:31 +0100

“There’s three central philosophies that will drive my next game…”

- Develop interview Peter Molyneux

"Why I quit Microsoft, and why my new game will change the world"

atouchofvertigo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:06:41 +0100

“Why I quit Microsoft, and why my new game will change the world”

- Eurogamer interviews Peter Molyneux

Roundup

atouchofvertigo — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:11:05 +0100

Lionhead and Random House are partnering to add more Fable novellas and digital short stories. We have a copy of the Balverine Order and while the writing quality isn’t top notch, it’s a fun distraction and extends the usual Fable universe.

Fable: The Journey’s box art has been released:

Dene and Simon Carter respond to criticism of the game (they no longer work on it), but suggest they are at least pleased that people feel strongly about their creation.

VG Revolution have a hands on of Fable Heroes from PAX East.

Mike Langlois at Gamasutra talks about why how failing in games can be fun, with specific reference made to Incoboto.

Molyjam 2012 is over. There are 250 brilliant games to play.

atouchofvertigo — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:15:40 +0100

Molyjam 2012 is over. There are 250 brilliant games to play.

Peter Molyneux at the Molyjam

atouchofvertigo — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:20:00 +0100

Peter Molyneux at the Molyjam

Blending textures in Topia

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:32:59 +0100

Blending textures in Topia

Molynews

atouchofvertigo — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:08:00 +0100

Three quick updates:

Arstechnica have a nice write up of the Molydeux game jam that’s happening this weekend. See more at What Would Molydeux

22 Cans is hiring, and the job descriptions suggest PM’s working on some sort of Facebook / social media game. PM’s always been about finding ways to reach a larger market - I think it was him who used to love talking about Solitaire being the most successful game in the world. We gave up on Facebook some time ago for all its privacy shenanigans, so colour us sceptical but interested.

REALLY EXCITED! PM and Cliffy B are advisors in a competition that aims to bring the old Fighting Fantasy books to life. Steve Jackson who wrote half of the FF books was a co-founder of Lionhead, so all the more reason for excitement.

Fable Heroes preview @ Games Catalyst

atouchofvertigo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:10:57 +0100

Fable Heroes preview @ Games Catalyst

Version 0.01 of Corsix-TH released

atouchofvertigo — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:15:00 +0100

The open source clone of Theme Hospital is getting closer and closer to completion, and has just left beta. We enjoyed Beta 6 very much this time last year, so we’re really pleased to see this progress towards the complete (and improved?) game.

Tong Zhang over at MobileTechReview offers advice for playing Incoboto: Be sure to listen to the...

atouchofvertigo — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:10:01 +0100

Tong Zhang over at MobileTechReview offers advice for playing Incoboto:

Be sure to listen to the whispers of fallen heroes; their advice can really help. Learn to play the game one-handed. It will help in later levels when you’ll need your other hand for screen manipulation.

It’s rated 5/5 on all fronts - graphics, sound, controls, and gameplay.

In other news, Dene tweeted the other day that whilst an iPhone version might appear one day, it wasn’t going to be in the foreseeable future.

Fable Heroes launches May 2nd. Costs 800 MS points

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:23:49 +0000

Fable Heroes launches May 2nd. Costs 800 MS points

Peter Molyneux will be appearing at the Australian Centre for Moving Image as part of a ‘Games...

atouchofvertigo — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:17:24 +0000

Peter Molyneux will be appearing at the Australian Centre for Moving Image as part of a ‘Games Master’ exhibition. It kicks off on June 28.

Source: Games.on.net

Millions of crazy ideas, two days to catch them...

atouchofvertigo — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:15:11 +0000

Molydeux’s game jam has expanded to London, Brighton and various other places in the world. Exciting stuff.

Preview of Fable: The Journey

atouchofvertigo — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:13:12 +0000

Preview of Fable: The Journey:

Nothing new as far as I could tell. The videos are from last year.

"We’re all massive Fable fans, everyone that works at Lionhead, we’ve lived and breathed..."

atouchofvertigo — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:08:00 +0000

“We’re all massive Fable fans, everyone that works at Lionhead, we’ve lived and breathed it for the last 10 years. To keep expanding it is something that everyone there wants to do”

- Ted Timmins @ videogamer.com

Best games for the new ipad (Incoboto)

atouchofvertigo — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:01:36 +0000

Best games for the new ipad (Incoboto)

The End of The Universe Was Never So Much Fun

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:15:00 +0000

The End of The Universe Was Never So Much Fun

It’s something of a goldmine over at PocketGamer today. Glenn Corpes has shared his thoughts...

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:51:00 +0000

It’s something of a goldmine over at PocketGamer today. Glenn Corpes has shared his thoughts on the new iPad.

My game Topia ran immediately in 2048 x 1536 with a small looking UI and font, this took an hour or so to fix. The simulator is amusing though - my 27-inch iMac can’t fit the whole retina iPad simulator on screen and Topia runs at 1FPS on it.

When Ted showed FH off for the first time

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:10:00 +0000

When Ted showed FH off for the first time:

Says TED: From the beginning of development, we were always putting fun over everything else, and trying to think of as many ways as possible to give the player a really enjoyable time when playing Fable Heroes.

Interview with Dene

atouchofvertigo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:37:00 +0000

Pocket Gamer managed to get some more juicy information from Dene about how Another Place Productions is likely to work.

We love building worlds, so it’s going to involve a world. An imaginative world. I don’t think you’d consider it to be necessarily what you’d expect from our little bunch.