Peter Molyneux’s next game is going to “change the world”

Peter Molyneux has a plan. Well, Peter Molyneux always has a plan, and sometimes those plans don’t quite work out as planned, but this is the new plan. Here’s how the plan works.

“I’ve got this idea of how 22Cans, as a company, will be shaped. It’s going to be seven industry veterans who have been through the mill many times before,” he told Develop.

“Add to that five highly experienced and unbelievably passionate people who have been through triple-A work a few times.”

“Then, adding to those twelve, we’re going to hire five people who haven’t had any industry experience at all. They’ve probably hardly ever worked at a games company. They’re going to be graduates, or maybe people who have done some intern stuff.”

“Then, lastly, five people who work outside of games. My theory on that is, if we are going to make something truly new – something where people can’t say ‘well it’s a bit of this game mixed with a bit of that one’ – then we need to hire people who exist outside of our box.”

“So I want to mix those people outside our industry with young and enthusiastic people as well as industry veterans and highly experienced staff.”

“If we wrap all those 22 people together, around this great and crazy and highly ambitious idea, and we sit down and experiment and innovate and play that idea, then maybe we can make something that can change the world.”

22Cans is, of course, the ‘Neux’s new company, co-founded with former Lionhead colleague Tim Rance. No project has been officially announced yet, but whatever it’s going to be, it’s might be the best thing Molyneux has ever done.

“I believe the greatest game I’ve ever made is still ahead of me,” he added, hopefully hinting that he’s going to make Black & White 3 and it’s going to be everything Black & White 2 should have been, but wasn’t. Pleeeeeeze.