Peter Molydeux parody account retires as Masters of Albion approaches

Kotaku reports that the long-running Peter Molydeux Twitter parody account is retiring after 16 years, its creator Adam Capone said in a retirement announcement posted on January 13, a decision Capone tied to Peter Molyneux calling his upcoming Masters of Albion his last game. The Molydeux account, created in 2009 to lampoon the real designer’s grandiose promises, tweeted outrageous game concepts that played off Molyneux’s reputation.

“Games evolved to the point where the ideas I was parodying were no longer outside the box,” wrote the account’s author, 3D environment artist Adam Capone. “I never thought I’d cut ties with this account. But after reading Peter Molyneux recently saying his upcoming game would be his last, it does feel like the right moment.

It’s still surreal to remember being invited to a photoshoot with the very person I was spoofing.” Capone, who was laid off as part of Ubisoft’s shuttering of its recently unionized Halifax studio, used the sign-off to urge developers to prioritise creative risk-taking over chasing metrics: “As the industry inevitably rebuilds, I’m convinced it’ll be the small, weird games from over-excited enthusiastic designers in control of their games as they continue creating new experiences and nudging us forward, step by (baby?) step,” he wrote.

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