Peter Molyneux has claimed that his newly introduced sport, Masters of Albion is ready in the identical world as Fable, regardless of being unaffiliated with Microsoft, or the Fable franchise.
Molyneux introduced his new sport, Masters of Albion, throughout Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell on Tuesday. The sport, which is being developed by ex-Fable devs in addition to ex-Media Molecule boss Mark Healey, is being described as an “open-world God sport,” set on this planet of Albion.
Chatting with IGN, Molyneux justified utilizing the Albion title by evaluating it to setting a number of video games in the identical nation, one thing that may’t be stopped by copyright.
“[It’s] like saying for those who set a sport in America, you possibly can’t set another sport in America,” he says. “So Albion can’t be copyrighted. It’s the title for England and Wales and that’s how we get away with it.”
“Fable was set in Albion, Masters of Albion is ready in Albion,” Molyneux clarifies.
When requested if he was positive that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted attributable to its historic context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m trustworthy, I don’t actually know… I hope so. I imply you’d suppose that the accountable particular person I needs to be, I might’ve spent the final six months in legal professionals’ places of work…”
Molyneux later mentioned that whereas he thought his new sport can be an attention-grabbing growth on the universe, it’s very a lot not a brand new entry in Microsoft’s franchise.
“It’s not really Fable 5 or something like that,” he mentioned. “However for those who’ve performed Fable, then undoubtedly Masters of Albion shall be acquainted to you. One of many issues that we now have bought and we completely wished a nail was the humour.
“I feel within the Fable video games, it’s not a lot about telling jokes, it’s extra about providing you with, the participant, the power to do ridiculous and humorous issues. And we’ve bought that in Masters of Albion in absolute spades. I feel we’re actually nailing that.”
