{"id":10765,"date":"2011-03-18T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"peter-molyneux-minecraft-s-the-best-thing-i-ve-played-in-the-last-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10765-peter-molyneux-minecraft-s-the-best-thing-i-ve-played-in-the-last-ten-years","title":{"rendered":"Peter Molyneux: \u201cMinecraft&#039;s the best thing I&#039;ve played in the last ten years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the dramatically emotional wake of Peter Molyneux&rsquo;s BAFTA Fellowship award earlier this week, Lionhead&rsquo;s resident dog and fart lover has confessed his love for Minecraft, declaring the game &ldquo;a complete work of genius&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish people in the press would focus on some of that up and coming talent, because there isn&#8217;t enough focus on it in my opinion,&#8221; he told <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/115\/1156187p1.html\" target=\"_self\">IGN. <\/a>&#8220;People like Marcus Persson who did Minecraft, he&#8217;s a fantastic person to talk to, and I think Minecraft is a complete work of genius.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to talk about playing the game with his son, and a subsequent &ndash; and somewhat disastrous &ndash; public invite issued over Twitter to his own server that went all sorts of wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Within ten seconds of me pushing the Twitter button there were ten people, within 20 there were 50 people, and in a minute there were 200 people and we were bombarded until the point where the whole server crashed.<\/p>\n<p>I think Minecraft&#8217;s the best thing I&#8217;ve played in the last ten years, and what&#8217;s so brilliant about it &ndash; and I&#8217;ve met Marcus and he&#8217;s a real inspirational person &ndash; he did everything on his own, and I think how brilliant and inspirational that is, to not need the full force of publishers and marketing people. He did everything on his own. I agree with you about it being a golden age &ndash; there&#8217;s so much choice, and I feel there&#8217;s so many opportunities as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Like dogs and farting, I&rsquo;m sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11747-Peter-Molyneux-reckons-Minecraft-the-best-thing-he-s-seen-in-10-years?p=385103#post385103\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the &#8216;Neux&#8217;s love for Minecraft <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it\u2019s so hard not to get enthusiastic when the \u2018Neux is enthusiastic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}