Eyes On: Peter Molyneux Previews Milo & Kate at TEDGlobal

Milo & Kate missed E3, but designer Peter Molyneux has just shown a brand-new demo of the Kinect game at the TEDGlobal 2010 conference in Oxford, England.

Duncan Geere, a reporter for Wired UK's bizarro alternate reality Game|Life (called Game-Life), was at the conference Tuesday and reported on the happenings. Molyneux showed off many new scenes from his experimental virtual-life game.

The earliest sections of the game show the player hunting down snails with Milo. Female players get butterflies instead – Molyneux said that girls find snails too icky. You select them with movements of your hand, and at one point Milo asks if he should stamp on one. The demonstrator shouted "Go on Milo, squash it!" and he did.

All the while, the game is learning about the player. Using psychology techniques, the player is asked to make decisions that shape the character of who Milo turns out to be. Molyneux said, "No people's Milo can be the same", which may turn out to be somewhat of an exaggeration – we were only shown a few of these decisions, so it's a little early to tell.

Molyneux's presentation ended with an interesting reveal – the artificial intelligence behind Milo won't be stored on the game disc, but in the cloud, and it will be enhanced as more people play the game.

As with all TED talks, Molyneux's speech will be placed online in video form at some point in the near future.

Eyes On: Peter Molyneux's Milo & Kate [Wired UK]

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