thrAsher
03-28-2004, 09:05 PM
Fable - GDC 2004
The theme for this year's Game Developers' Conference centers around evolution; more specifically, the evolution of games as a medium, through innovation. Year after year, developers search for new ideas, concepts, and ideologies that will push interactive entertainment into the next-generation. For nearly four years, Peter Molyneux has pursued the rarely obtainable goal of innovation with Fable. While many in the community of gamers have been skeptical of the game's execution, Fable certainly isn't a fairy tale; rather, the game will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most ambitious and impressive projects ever developed.
Once Upon A Time
Fable began without a name, several years ago, conceived only as Project Ego. In the course of its development, Peter Molyneux, director of Lionhead Studios, described the hopes of designing a new kind of role-playing experience. Unlike traditional console-RPGs, Fable was to allow for unprecedented freedom in play with open-ended character development and non-linear gameplay. While most massively multiplayer online games afford plenty of non-linear play, Fable would not only facilitate such an experience, but actually impact the visual presentation of the game and hero. By performing various acts in the game, your hero would choose good acts or evil acts; ultimately, the balance between these morally-imbued actions would affect the moral alignment of your hero and influence his appearance. An immense undertaking, Fable not longer lies in the realm of concept, but instead in reality, fully realizing these promises.
Continued here (http://www.gamerspulse.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=GPPreviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=240)
Not a whole lot of revelations in this article, but a few interesting tidbits. Love the bit about the temples....
The theme for this year's Game Developers' Conference centers around evolution; more specifically, the evolution of games as a medium, through innovation. Year after year, developers search for new ideas, concepts, and ideologies that will push interactive entertainment into the next-generation. For nearly four years, Peter Molyneux has pursued the rarely obtainable goal of innovation with Fable. While many in the community of gamers have been skeptical of the game's execution, Fable certainly isn't a fairy tale; rather, the game will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most ambitious and impressive projects ever developed.
Once Upon A Time
Fable began without a name, several years ago, conceived only as Project Ego. In the course of its development, Peter Molyneux, director of Lionhead Studios, described the hopes of designing a new kind of role-playing experience. Unlike traditional console-RPGs, Fable was to allow for unprecedented freedom in play with open-ended character development and non-linear gameplay. While most massively multiplayer online games afford plenty of non-linear play, Fable would not only facilitate such an experience, but actually impact the visual presentation of the game and hero. By performing various acts in the game, your hero would choose good acts or evil acts; ultimately, the balance between these morally-imbued actions would affect the moral alignment of your hero and influence his appearance. An immense undertaking, Fable not longer lies in the realm of concept, but instead in reality, fully realizing these promises.
Continued here (http://www.gamerspulse.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=GPPreviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=240)
Not a whole lot of revelations in this article, but a few interesting tidbits. Love the bit about the temples....