And in Part deux of this epic tale of wonder and Quake 2 tornaments, we actually have to take a detour off the deep end to remark on one of the more wonderful of the Friday afternoon’s developer sessions staring everyone’s favourite Mr Muscle spokesman;

Peter Mildew, sorry Mole…Mulne…Muller….Molyneux

Now it’s not often we would go into a diatribe about one of the many sessions in detail, given that the audience tends to be those who would gush if their favourite developer would look at them and acknowledge they exist.

But this time was different.

Fresh from leaving Microsoft due to getting bored, and nicking all the post-it notes and staplers to take to his new company, this was the first real presentation to the public as what the man who did many excellent things at the long defunct Bullfrog Productions, to repeatedly disappointing everyone with his recent wares after grand claims that everything he produces will change everything in the world forever and bring world peace or something.

His reputation for exaggeration is well known basically.

So it was going to be curious as what he would come out with this time around, given he was now free of corporate overlords.

His presentation it must be said managed to achieve a dual mix of emotion. The first of which, was admiration for seeing and hearing the man talk about himself, what he had done, and also why he decided to move on from Microsoft (part of the evil Takazuki Corporation), along with expressing admiration for someone taking the pi*s

From watching him, it was clear that he knows how to command people’s attention, and the enthusiasm he has for the subject at hand is plain for all to see, and on that level, he deserves a good deal of respect.

But then the second emotion….perhaps it’s best just to let you decide.

Ladies and gentleman; I give to you:

A cube where you tap away for a bit with lots of other people, or you can money to tap away more bits of the cube for the chance to see something when it’s all gone.

Look upon the face of hype.

Cue applause and the mile long parade.

Err….

Hang on gentle reader, what do you mean you’re not jumping up and down with insane lust, forcing your money into Peter’s mouth while proclaiming love for all things cube shaped?

You’re saying it sounds f*cking stupid?

Ah. Therein lies the rub as yes, it is f*cking stupid and somehow you really do wonder what the train of through was when he was putting this together to present to a crowded room and the internet as a whole.

After all these years, the only conclusion you can reach is that he’s finally started taking heroin to think that everyone will get behind this, to spend hours and possibly money for months to reveal something which apparently will make the news and/or change your life.

This is the first of many grand experiments apparently and the application on your device of choice, will feed data back to Peter in his volcano lair, where they will find out about your tapping habits and then report it all back via the publication Edge (rather appropriate considering he appears to have gone over the edge.)

After this is all completed, the results will lead at some point to a full-blown title in about two years from now. What that could possibly be is anyone’s guess after this presentation.

Look, the cube is…err…cuber

The principal of trying to do something more meaningful with cloud gaming is sound, just when you’re also putting up $50,000 dlc to chip away at the cube for the ultra-rich and lazy, it kind of leaves a cynical after taste. Though Peter has defended the practice, stating that free to play money-making needs to be experimented with and not for one second did he expect to make money out of it.

And yet, the fact he had written on the damned slide, the $50,000 dlc in the first place….That may not sell, but it’s obvious that someone will pay for the optional extra picks at the lower price points. All the while, just tapping on an object for possibly hours on end. Tap. Tap. Tap. Each tap that occurs, a brain cell dies.

The sad thing is that it is sure to be a resounding success, given that so many people enjoy that mind-boggling pile of dung called Angry Birds and update their social status to say what fluff they’ve picked out of their belly buttons. Then the next experiment will just involve staring at a dot for 10 years, where you can pay $1000 for someone else to stare at the dot for you for a week.

You can join this “revolution” in August on the various devices that you will be able to tap with, whereas I will be instead partaking in the annual “I swear I didn’t eat that competition” at the local bulimic centre.

If you want to see what the fuss was about, you can view online at Eurogamer to make up your own mind.

We nicked some images from http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-05-photos-from-rezzed-the-pc-and-indie-games-show mainly as I forgot to take photos until after the show.