This seemed like a warning sign in retrospect. People would zoom up and down the office on scooters, often stopping by someone’s desk to say hi and chat for a bit.
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We were all friends, and the office was full of banter, laughing and joking. It felt like a hobby club: a place where a bunch of guys could have fun doing what they loved and get paid for it.
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I felt so far out of my depth that, for a while, I genuinely feared my trial period would end badly. Leading up to getting the job I had spent six months teaching myself the basics of OpenGL and C++, from which came a demo that helped land me the position, but OpenGL and DirectX are very different beasts and DirectX is much more difficult to get to grips with.Īlso, unlike when I taught myself, my learning was now under the scrutiny of others. I knew nothing of Direct3D, for instance, and I barely knew what a shader was. The following months would be the customary baptism of fire as I discovered how little I really knew about, well, anything. I was determined to do my damnedest to make sure I would rise to the level of everyone else there. How could I possibly live up to the standards of everything I saw? I was also absolutely overjoyed to be part of something that even then seemed like it would be special. However, when I was shown around the office to meet everyone, what I saw was incredible art and a game that looked amazing. It was a contentious issue with people back then. This all set me up nicely for my first faux pas: asking which button caused the character to jump.
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My PC wasn't ready when I arrived, so I spent my first day waiting for my equipment and playing a very early build of a game known then as Project Ego, what would later become Fable. I soon became accustomed to the strange sense of time kept by the trains in that part of the country. I arrived late due to miscalculating the ever-reliable train service. It wasn't a huge office, but it was situated on the ground floor of a building next to the river in Godalming, a village to the south of Guildford where Lionhead was based. There were 20 or so people there when I joined game developer Big Blue Box in December of 2001 and, with few exceptions, all of them would be there at the end as well. "All our sweetest hours fly fastest." -Georgics, Virgil The recent closure of Lionhead Studios made this an ideal time to share some of those stories. I don’t think I could come up with a more perfect description of how my time working on Fable felt than those words penned by Dickens nearly 160 years ago. Would you guys like to see Fable 4 happen? Do you think Microsoft should take a break from the franchise for a while? It does seem to have lost its way a bit over the years."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
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KitGuru Says: While Peter Molyneux might be fairly well-known for making promises that he perhaps shouldn't when working on games, Fable 1 and Fable 2 still turned out to be successes, so having him work on another game in the series might not be a bad idea. Obviously, right now nobody knows what Microsoft's future plans are for the Fable IP but we do know that Fable Legends was cancelled so the idea of more Fable might be put on ice for a while. It's such a rich world and there are so many avenues we didn't explore.
Speaking with Eurogamer in a recent post on the rise and eventual fall of Lionhead, Molyneux said: “When I finish what I'm working on now, if someone comes to me and asks, hey, do you want to do Fable 4, I'd totally be up for it. This means that Microsoft may well be open to revisiting Fable later down the line and it turns out, the series' original creator, Peter Molyneux would also be open to working on it. Microsoft officially closed down Lionhead Studios over the last few weeks and while the company did consider some offers from buyers, it didn't want to give up the rights to Fable, which is arguably the most well-known series to come out of Lionhead in years.