Microsoft has a few jubilantly announced exclusive games in the last couple of years that have all but disappeared today, with longer-than-expected developments. Fablethe reboot of one of the series RPG most emblematic of Xbox that Playground Games is doing, is one of them.
There has been no official word on Fable following its announcement at E3 2020, and instead there have been rumors of development being hampered by issues with the graphics engine.
Today, however, we have a little more positive update, and that is that, according to a Playground Games employee, picked up by Twisted Voxel, the new Fable is now in a playable state.
Fable would not have changed the graphics engine either
A producer at PlayGround Games, Vijay Gillhas posted on his Linkedin that he is currently preparing playable builds of the game to present to shareholders, including “playthroughs” of the game, which suggests that the game in its entirety, or a large part, is already in a playable state.
It is also interesting to see evidence that They deny the rumors of a change of graphics engine to Unreal Enginewhich would have meant a restart of development.
There is a job offer for a level designer that specifies that he would work with the studio’s own engine, the same one they use for the Forza Horizon games.
Likewise, some employees of Turn 10 Studios (creators of Forza Motorsport and its engine, which they share with Playground Games) have also been working on technology specifically for Fable.
Playground Games has also received help from Eidos Montréal, who will go on to lend a hand on various Microsoft games, similar to Crystal Dynamics, which is working on the new Perfect Dark… two undated reboots, and probably still a long time coming. years to come out
