Lionhead have yet to reveal their new video game, despite having almost spilled the beans repeatedly for the past six months or so. An E3 announcement now looks likely, the veteran designer offering a few hints about the inspiration behind this fresh opus.

"A long time ago, I was talking about a project - it was actually an experiment called 'Dimitri', which was a project that we were kind of working on for a long time. That kind of evolved and changed as these experiments do," Molyneux explains to Gamasutra.

"The core of this idea, the thing that it lacked, was the way to describe it to you, what that kind of wrapper was. And then, this moment, this evangelical moment came to me while I was sitting in a meeting.

"I was sitting in a meeting looking at someone else's game from another studio, and I saw this one picture. It was just this single image of a picture. I thought, 'That's it. That's exactly what it needs.' And so I rushed back and said, 'Right, we should do this.'

“It was one of those, so rarely happens in your life when you see something and you know so strongly that it's the right thing."

More on this soon, we sincerely hope.

By Luke Guttridge