Peter Molyneux's 'FeedMe' is a 256-player Populous pet project
by Randy Nelson 
on Mar 3rd 2011 9:20PM
After taking a trip back through the development of his first game,
Populous, at GDC today, Lionhead's
Peter Molyneux revealed that he's actually
still working on the game. Programmed by Molyneux in his spare time, "FeedMe" is a 256-player version of the original Commodore Amiga title -- and the audience for his presentation got a rare look at it.
Showing if off wasn't easy. Molyneux had to compile the Visual C++ code, encountered a fatal error and sucessfully debugged it. The result: a very basic, high-res
Populous world map with almost no user interface. In the course of watching this, we realized that the famed designer has only one game in the taskbar on his computer:
Minecraft -- which, when you think about it, does draw inspiration from Molyneux's world-manipulation-based classic
.
