Peter Molyneux is making a new game for iOS and Andriod devices, the game shows a cube that the player can hit (by tapping the screen) with a chisel. There is a single cube for all players who play this game. The players can buy different chisels that would do different amount of damage. The cube has a pre-set amount of points, the player who hits the last point will be shown a secret that is (in Peter Molyneux own words) "is so valuable, and so life-changingly important," the game is called:
Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube.
Now I am going to save you time and money by telling you what is inside the cube:
a choice. How do I know? Easy, there is limited things that one can put inside a cube on a phone's screen: picture, video, text or as I suspect a hyperlink. No picture, video nor text will be "life-changingly" important to a random person, but a choice would, represented in the hyperlink.
The last player will make a choice and his own choice will affect him more than anything that Peter Molyneux can dream up or show on the screen of a mobile device.
What is the choice? Whether it is a choice, I am 100% sure, but I can only guess on the nature of this choice. My guess is that the last player will be presented with two options: take the money that has been paid by other players to buy chisels or return this money to them.
for more information on the game:
- Posts Tagged ‘22 Cans’ on Rock, Paper, Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/22-cans/)
- Posts tagged 22 Cans on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/22-Cans/)
Films with similar plot:
- The Box (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/)
- Sophie's Choice (1982) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084707/)
Quote from: Aqala on Sun 21/10/2012 23:56:40
the player who hits the last point will be shown a secret that is (in Peter Molyneux own words) "is so valuable, and so life-changingly important,"
"Don't waste your time destroying virtual geometrics"? 8-)
Well, thanks for spoiling it for everybody!.... ;) But seriously, this makes sense. I've been wondering myself what it could be in that cube that's so life changing... And yeah. That'd be actually quite clever;)
Aqala, very interesting theory! If Peter MolyFaux actually pulls through with one of his promises, then you may well be right. I think it's safe to say his originality died with Black and White, i'm guessing he watched The Box and stole the idea. I find him quite irritating :)
You actually get rick roll'd.
Quote from: Chicky on Tue 23/10/2012 14:02:39
Aqala, very interesting theory! If Peter MolyFaux actually pulls through with one of his promises, then you may well be right. I think it's safe to say his originality died with Black and White, i'm guessing he watched The Box and stole the idea. I find him quite irritating :)
Peter Molyneux does what every other game developer in the world do, including the guys who post on the Completed Game Announcements board: they promote their game. Every game developer promises a pie in the sky yet game journalists only take Molyneux at his word and only rage against him when he ultimately fails to delver.
I paid full price for Black&White, played it once and then gave it to a friend of mine, so I have no reason to stick up for Molyneux, but I recognise that I am being manipulated by the media and not Molynuex. I suspect that he is aware of this, yet is unable or unwilling to stop the dependency cycle (despite multiple tries).
Presumably the game will ship with the Day One DLC of more cubes.