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Peter Molyneux Parody Twitter Account Reveals Genius Game Ideas

This parody account of the famous video game designer could carry his legacy when he actually retires.

by Eric Francisco
Kotaku

For a brief time yesterday, video game designer Peter Moylneux was retiring. The man behind Fable also has a bit of a reputation for being an adolescent shut-in in a 56-year-old’s body; recently he tweeted he was bowing out of the game of games and would be removing his most recent game Godus from Steam.

But not to worry; this wasn’t actually Peter Moylneux. The eccentric creator claims to have been hacked. (Sike!) On the other hand, this Moylneux-less lull was the perfect time to hit up @PeterMolydeux, an exquisite Twitter parody of the British native. Given that the real Molyneux has sky-high ambitions that reality cannot possibly support, his spoof account is rife with shockingly ingenious ideas that — call us crazy — would make for awesome indie experiments.

To be honest, that might work better for Shia LaBeouf.

Topical!

I’ve lost enough friends to FarmVille.

Otherwise known as The Big Short: The Game.

Pretty sure that was Mad Max.

What if there were a game in which killing someone resulted in a brief cutaway scene to their grieving orphan’s birthday party?

Those last two are already in a game. It’s called A Relationship.

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