Peter Molyneux To receive the academy fellowship

Peter Molyneux, the creative mind behind some of the world’s most popular video games, including the best selling Fable series for Microsoft.  Molyneux has also been the power  behind such titles as Powermonger, Theme Park, Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper.  Molyneux will be up to receive the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Fellowship at this year’s GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.

Molyneux co-founded Bullfrog Productions in 1987 and created a new genre of computer games known as “the God game”, with the release of Populous.   Since then he has been responsible for a string of massive gaming titles including Powermonger, Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper and the Fable series. Cumulative sales of his games are at approximately fifteen million worldwide.

On being invited to receive the Fellowship, Peter Molyneux said: “I remember back in 1967 watching the first BAFTA awards on television with my family and seeing them being so excited about those accolades. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think it would be possible for me to accept one of the greatest honours the entertainment industry has to offer. My first thought on learning that I was awarded an Academy Fellowship  was that to be in  the company of some of the greatest talents the entertainment industry has ever seen is truly humbling  and secondly that this an award  not just for myself, but for all the people I’ve ever worked with”.

Amanda Berry OBE, Chief Executive of BAFTA, said: “We are delighted to be honouring Peter at this point in his long and successful career in video games.  He is one of the leading figures in the development of video games as an art form and an inspiration to the next generation of creative minds”.

 

We wish Molyneux all the best as he deserves the award.