Fable Isn't Dead - Fable Fortune Card Game Goes to Kickstarter for Funding

Fable Isn't Dead – Fable Fortune Card Game Goes to Kickstarter for Funding

A couple of months ago, we reported the lamentable news of Legend Legends'southward cancellation and Lionhead's closure by Microsoft. We assumed that was not the end for the IP, though, and it turns out that we were right.

It turns out that Lionhead was secretly developing a CCG (collectible card game) and at present a new studio formed by ex-Lionhead developers, Flaming Fowl Studios, decided to try and fund the game via Kickstarter after Microsoft granted them the license for Fable Fortune.

The game will be available for PC (Steam & Windows Shop) and Xbox One, with Android and iOS to follow at a later appointment. According to the team, the Airtight Beta phase is but "a handful of months" away; the goal is to get the game into the hands of Gilt tier backers in two months. Acquire more about the project from the following Kickstarter highlights.

Let'south bring back Fable!

Set in the whimsical world of Albion, Fable Fortune is a Legend themed free-to-play collectible card game (CCG) that combines the franchise'south about cherished gameplay systems with an array of pioneering game modes.

And so our story begins...

Fable Fortune was the surreptitious project that we, a small team of veterans, have been heading up from inside Lionhead. Inspired by the popularity of Fable Pub Games, Mike West (our Creative Director) originally pitched a Fable CCG back on Fable II. 18 months agone, his passion for the concept finally paid off when he moved into the Franchise Team at Lionhead and we received the greenlight to showtime development on Fable Fortune. We have been working on information technology always since.

Nosotros were getting close to finally announcing simply as many of y'all volition be aware, Microsoft recently made the decision to close Lionhead which obviously impacted our project. Almost immediately after this news bankrupt nosotros knew what we wanted to do! We wanted to make a new studio, with a suitably silly proper name and carry on making this ourselves. We believed in the game and we believed Fable fans would want to see it. We merely had to convince Microsoft to let u.s.a. carry on…

We approached Microsoft - hoping for the best, prepared for a corporate hand to the face. To our delight they were very open to the idea and agreed to grant us the licence for Fable Fortune. To exist clear, nosotros haven't been granted a license to the unabridged Legend franchise, Microsoft take retained these rights, only we have the creative freedom to keep developing Fortune as an contained studio. Nosotros care deeply nigh Fable and it means the world to us that Microsoft have trusted us to continue using the IP.

Every friction match takes identify within an iconic Albion location drawn directly from the Legend series.

Whether punching the smug faces of overconfident heroes in Fairfax Castle, or leading a band of pitchfork-wielding peasants into the dark shadows of Lychfield Cemetery, y'all'll be taking on a gear up of quests unique to each of these locations.

Each hero can only reach their true potential by completing quests - unique tasks called by both players during a match. Construct decks and build strategies to fulfil the objectives of your called quests and reap the difficult-won rewards!

Of grade, for every quest a role player completes, they must then make a choice betwixt Expert & Evil...

Core to all Fable games is the player's pick to utilise their heroic powers for Good or Evil - and Fortune continues that legacy.

Over the course of each battle, the player'southward hero will morph to reflect their alignment, changing the effects of their special abilities and also morphing many cards in their deck into more powerful variants.

Wise choices as to when to follow the path of Skorm or Avo, can turn even the closest of matches.

Make friends you'll continue for a lifetime!

Fable Fortune will characteristic a co-op fashion entirely unique to the CCG genre, allowing you to squad-upwards with a friend against a host of Fable villains such as Nostro or Logan.

While each player builds their own deck, their units are shared in a fast-paced brawl that creates many ballsy dual deck combinations!

At that place's something for everyone in Fortune because it has been designed with a stiff consequence system at its core.

At whatever one time there volition be the core PvP league, a co-op boss and at least one gameplay warping event available to play.

Whether y'all are ultra-competitive or prefer co-operative games, brand new to card games or a 20-yr veteran, you'll always detect something to excite y'all inside Legend Fortune.