New Fable developer Playground Games has been careful not to slavishly emulate the work of series creator Lionhead Games, but the new shepherds of the IP did obviously want to examine and learn from the games that came before them. As part of this history lesson, the studio unearthed design files that were evidently stored away before or around the time Xbox shut down Lionhead a decade after acquiring the studio and mismanaging it into dust – a misstep that Xbox leadership has publicly owned up to in the past. Surely they wouldn't do that again.
In an Xbox Wire post, Fable general manager and game director Ralph Fulton tackles the question of "the essence" of a Fable game.
