Lionhead: The Inside Story

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This article is four years old but I just found out about it. It basically details what it was like to work at Lionhead from the beginning to the end. I can't believe I'm saying this but it made me miss the days when Peter Molyneux was a big deal. It also made me nostalgic for a better time when the gaming industry was still a fun boy's club and no one had to be PC at the office. I'd give just about anything to go back to those days. The emotional effect this article had on me was pretty surprising.

Some of the more fun bits include a story about a guy accidentally emailing a porn link to the entire company and only getting an informal warning, Steve Jackson getting a surprise stripper on his 50th birthday, and Peter getting his tomagachi murdered by a coworker who thought it was childish. Can you imagine any of that stuff happening at a game studio in 2020?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-12-lionhead-the-inside-story
 
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GhostCow said:
This article is four years old but I just found out about it. It basically details what it was like to work at Lionhead from the beginning to the end. I can't believe I'm saying this but it made me miss the days when Peter Molyneux was a big deal. It also made me nostalgic for a better time when the gaming industry was still a fun boy's club and no one had to be PC at the office. I'd give just about anything to go back to those days. The emotional effect this article had on me was pretty surprising.

Some of the more fun bits include a story about a guy accidentally emailing a porn link to the entire company and only getting an informal warning, Steve Jackson getting a surprise stripper on his 50th birthday, and Peter getting his tomagachi murdered by a coworker who thought it was childish. Can you imagine any of that stuff happening at a game studio in 2020?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-12-lionhead-the-inside-story
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And it shows in games today. Lots of games are soulless money grabbing crap nowadays.
 
GhostCow said:
This article is four years old but I just found out about it. It basically details what it was like to work at Lionhead from the beginning to the end. I can't believe I'm saying this but it made me miss the days when Peter Molyneux was a big deal. It also made me nostalgic for a better time when the gaming industry was still a fun boy's club and no one had to be PC at the office. I'd give just about anything to go back to those days. The emotional effect this article had on me was pretty surprising.

Some of the more fun bits include a story about a guy accidentally emailing a porn link to the entire company and only getting an informal warning, Steve Jackson getting a surprise stripper on his 50th birthday, and Peter getting his tomagachi murdered by a coworker who thought it was childish. Can you imagine any of that stuff happening at a game studio in 2020?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-12-lionhead-the-inside-story
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Man, Peter Molyneux is such an enigma in the gaming world. I can't think of anyone else so well known for both making brilliant games and making utter crap. He's definitely always been one of the great visionaries in game development, it's a shame he couldn't always deliver on what he promised.

I'll always have a soft spot for Black & White, what an incredible game. Even Fable, despite its many unfulfilled promises, was a great game.
 
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