Fable veterans to leave Lionhead and start new studio

Five employees of the British Lionhead Studios, which played a central role in the development of the Fable games, left the company to a private studio to start it. The five continued under the name of Another Place Productions.

According to Eurogamer, his art director John McCormack, technical director Guillaume Portes and executive producer Jeremie Texier left at Lionhead Studios. The three worked together at Lionhead, owned by Microsoft, the Fable-games. The threesome is now working with Another Place Productions started. This new ontwikkelstudio state under the leadership of the brothers Dene and Simon Carter, who left at the Big Blue Box, a satellietstudio of Lionhead which is the first game in the series developed.

Lionhead, meanwhile, has Fable: The Journey, in production, a game that can be controlled with Microsoft’s Kinect. The Journey would be later this year on the market. Also, there were already some time rumors about the development of Fable 4 already have Microsoft or Lionhead that rumors are never confirmed. In the words of director Peter Molyneux has Lionhead have let you know that it is on a secret second project.

Earlier this week placed Lionhead an employment advertisement for an engine programmer. The programmer will work on a new project and must have experience with DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.x. That suggests that he a game is going to work for the new Xbox, which Microsoft later this year, maybe, going to announce.

Fable: The Journey


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