Peter Molyneux loves Minecraft

Peter Molyneux in an interview with IGN UK admits that he loves Minecraft, and thinks it’s the best game he’s ever played in ten years.

The building MMO came up in the interview when IGN noted that Molyneux had sent out an open invite to his Minecraft server. Turns out his son was pining for more people to enter their world. Molyneux opened up the server, and then tweeted the web address. Molyneux moaned, ”That was the worst thing to do – within ten seconds of me pushing the Twitter button there were ten people, within 20 there were 50 people, and in a minute there were 200 people and we were bombarded until the point where the whole server crashed.”

Molyneux had wisely had the option to change his world off, but his land was a forest of inquisitive users: ”There was this hill completely full of people, like a forest of people. It was quite scary, actually. In Minecraft your designs tend to be quite personal – and that’s the genius of it – and to think there are all these people just going there and looking, it was quite funny.”

He then raved, ”I think Minecraft’s the best thing I’ve played in the last ten years, and what’s so brilliant about it – and I’ve met Markus and he’s a real inspirational person – he did everything on his own, and I think how brilliant and inspirational that is, to not need the full force of publishers and marketing people. He did everything on his own. I agree with you about it being a golden age – there’s so much choice, and I feel there’s so many opportunities as well.”

Keep in mind, the game is still in beta.