UK developer Playground Games has opened a third office to work on the Fable reboot. The studio revealed as much on its dedicated LinkedIn page:
Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans.
Today, Playground has three world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studios on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.
The two previous offices are located on Portland Street (St. Albans House) and Newbold Terrace (Rossmore House). No details have been shared on the third office as of yet. According to the official website, there are currently 32 open positions across all departments for the Fable team:
- 3C Engineer
- AI Engineer
- Associate Lead/Lead Environment Artist
- Associate Technical Designer (Contract)
- Audio Programmer (all levels)
- Capture Artist
- Community Director
- Experienced Audio Designer - Cinematics (Contract)
- Gameplay Animator (all levels)
- Gameplay Engineer
- Outsource Environment Artist (Contract)
- PC QA Technician (Contract)
- QA Manager
- QA Technician (Contract)
- Quest Designer
- Senior AI Engineer
- Senior Animation Engineer
- Senior Character Artist
- Senior Cinematic Animator
- Senior Environment Artist
- Senior Foliage Artist
- Senior Gameplay Engineer
- Senior Material Artist
- Senior Narrative Designer
- Senior Producer
- Senior Quest Designer
- Senior Rendering Engineer
- Senior Systems Engineer
- Senior UI Artist
- Senior UI Engineer
- Senior VFX Artist
- VFX Artist (all levels)
It would seem a lot for a game that's scheduled to launch in less than a year and a half, although, of course, it is possible at least some of those job openings have already been filled, and the website simply needs to catch up.
You can check out the latest Fable trailer from June's Xbox Games Showcase here.
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