{"id":33528,"date":"2012-03-04T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33528"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T08:37:00","slug":"fable-brothers-leave-lionhead-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33528-fable-brothers-leave-lionhead-studios","title":{"rendered":"Fable brothers leave Lionhead Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carter brothers, of the Dene and Simon persuasion, were instrumental to <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11935-Lionhead-Studios\">Lionhead<\/a>&#8216;s figurehead series, Fable.<\/p>\n<p>Simon is fondly remembered for his part in the Bullfrog team that produced Dungeon Keeper and as a former Lionhead tech director.<\/p>\n<p>He announced that he would be vacating his position in June 2011 to focus on producing digitally distributed titles for <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a> and console, calling it a \u201cvery difficult\u201d decision.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of his brother Dene, a year later, comes as little surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The Carters have reunited and formed a UK-based studio called &#8216;Another Place Productions&#8217; and will be joined by former art director John McCormack, technical director Guillaume Portes and executive producer, Jeremie Texier &#8211; all former employees of Lionhead Studios.<\/p>\n<p>How the loss of such critical members will affect Lionhead remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>With over ten years of experience and renown in the gaming industry, these heavyweights have some high hopes pinned on them.<\/p>\n<p>Another Place Productions will be focusing on \u201chigh-quality, meaningful experiences\u201d for the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19910-Playstation-Network-(PSN)\">PSN<\/a>, <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19908-Xbox-LIVE-(XBL)\">XBLA<\/a>, <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19930-Steam\">Steam<\/a> and mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamasutra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/163710\/Fable_creators_key_Lionhead_staff_form_new_UK_studio.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related article<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Fable tech-director resigns from Lionhead\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12517-fable-tech-director-resigns-from-lionhead.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fable tech director resigns from Lionhead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found Another Place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":33529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2568,2569,2572,2573,2571,2519,2570],"class_list":["post-33528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-another-place-productions","tag-dene-carter","tag-guillaume-portes","tag-jeremie-texier","tag-john-mccormack","tag-lionhead","tag-simon-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33530,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions\/33530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}