Peter Molyneux has established some of the biggest names in game development history, such as Bullfrog and Lionhead studios. He recently left Microsoft in order to start his own indie studio, 22 Cans.<\/p>\n
Now the industry stalwart has given more details on his first game since leaving Microsoft \u2013 Curiosity.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t heard of it before, the game\u2019s entire premise seems to be based on its title \u2013 players will have small pickaxes which they will use to chip away at an immense black cube, made up of 60 million other cubes. What\u2019s in the center of it? You\u2019ll have to wait to get there to find out.<\/p>\n
The destruction of the cube will be a team effort \u2013 Molyneux claims the game allows for up to a million players chipping away at the block at the same time. There isn\u2019t much more info on what actually happens in the game aside from manual labour.<\/p>\n
Molyneux however, always with a flair for drama, says the center of the cube “is so valuable and so life-changingly important”.<\/p>\n
He got even more enthusiastic, “It’s so amazing I think it will appear on news reports, though it’s not a dead cat, by the way.” If it\u2019s a cat that\u2019s neither alive nor dead, I\u2019m going to flip the table.<\/p>\n
Perhaps most interestingly, despite up to a million people being able to put in some hard time, only one person will actually be able to \u201cunlock the mystery\u201d at the center of the cube. How this person is chosen or why there can only be one has not been revealed.<\/p>\n
Additional tools will be sold via microtransactions, and in true Molyneux style there will be a diamond pickaxe on sale for $50,000, although Molyneux insists this is “nothing to be ashamed of.”<\/p>\n
The premise is intriguing, but after all the hype and hard work it\u2019s going to be really hard for the conclusion to not be disappointing. We’ll get to begin uncovering the secret on August 22nd of this year, when the game will be released on iOS, Android and PC.<\/p>\n
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