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Fable (Playground Games, 2027)

Fable is an upcoming action-adventure role-playing game, releasing on Xbox, Windows PC and PlayStation 5 in February 2027. I worked on the project as a technical designer within the quest team from late summer 2024 until mid-July 2026.

During my two years at Playground Games, I owned and contributed to several main quests and assisted in implementing content across the main questline and several side quests. My responsibilities included: liaising with the engineering team to produce documentation that provided clear workflows for multiple teams, implementing content provided by the narrative team into quests, implementing and/or making adjustments to combat encounters, working with NPCs & AI systems, bug fixing and close collaboration with the QA team to ensure quality, attending director-led content reviews for my quests, and working with other teams to produce gameplay features intended for use in and outside of quests.

Sourced from the Xbox Developer_Direct 2026.