Lionhead & især deres frontmand Peter Molyneux har i mange år haft en stor stjerne blandt spilkyndige. Begejstringen er dog falmet lidt, især efter de to Black & White titler ikke helt levede op til forventningerne. Molyneux og co. “hyper” heller ikke deres udgivelser i samme stil og måske skyldes det erfaringerne fra tidligere. Gamesindustry.biz bringer i dag første del af et større interview med Molyneux, hvor han erkender at Lionhead har været lige ved og næsten. Troen på fremtiden er dog intakt og det er gode nyheder. Der er efterhånden alt for få mindre spiludviklere, som kan finde finansiering til at få selv de mere skøre idéer ud i livet.
Because of the success of Black & White there was a new level of fans that came to see us, and these were financial fans. There was this one bloke, no experience in the games industry, he was a business entrepreneur. He sat us down and said, “You idiots, I can make you worth a billion pounds in 18 months, guaranteed, and you hardly have to do anything.” And we of course went, “Okay, that sounds great.”
There was this whole new thing about flotation that started to happen, and that meant that suddenly we went from being a whacky games developer into a professional thing, we were going up to the City of London and having these incredible meetings.

























