Horizon Forbidden West writer to help with Fable script

Restart Favorites fables attracts developers from all directions. Studio Playground games boasts a lot of reinforcements, and Microsoft can be proud that it stole one talent from competitors.

He joined the Playground Games team Andrew Walsh. He spent the last four years in Guerrilla games. From November 2018 to September 2022 – senior screenwriter. Forbidden Horizon West and since June 2019 freelance writer assistant. Horizon Call of the Mountain.

Walsh has experience with Fable. He was the lead writer for Fable Legends, an unfinished free-to-play multiplayer spin-off. The project was canceled in 2016 when Microsoft closed Lionhead Studios.

The main person responsible for the history of Fable is Anna Megill. She is an award-winning and accomplished screenwriter with a history of action-packed action films. Control from Remedy, where she was also the head of the story team, and traces of her can also be found in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider and Guild Wars 2.

Magill joined Playground Games this summer after leaving Ubisoft, where she worked on an unreleased event. Avatar: Pandora’s Limits from the creators of The Division. According to available information, the studio is approaching the limit 400 employees. But we don’t know exactly how many people are working on Fable.

However, in 2017 the studio had over 200 employees. It can be concluded that the same number continue to work on ForzaHorizon series. The rest is dedicated to the ambitious Fable.

According to speculation, we can expect Fable for Xbox Series X/S and PC no sooner than two to three years from now. Developers talk about balance between old and new ideasallowing them to take the experience to the next level. The Xbox Game Studios boss compares Fable to the new Star Wars films. Undoubtedly it will be an open world RPG.