“I wanted to get a smile back on the faces of content creators again where they wanted to go and improve something and feel like they had the support and tools they needed.” “My main reason for choosing UE3 was tools and iteration,” said Marcus Lynn, technical director, Lionhead Studios. “The nature of the game means we didn’t need to get right under the hood and bang our heads on the bonnet,” he said.Įdwards said the level design team used Matinee and Kismet to quickly block out puzzles and environmental animations so they could get their vision across and try out ideas without just showing someone something scrawled excitedly on a piece of paper. For the rest it was a pretty gentle learning curve.
Being able to craft cutscenes in Matinee gave the team much more control and really empowered them to finesse their work.Įdwards said a couple of the nine level design team members had Unreal Engine experience. On previous games, the camera placement was done by noting camera location and facing vectors and interpolating between them with script, which was a slow and clunky process. The accessibility of the tools has really helped us be self-reliant as a team.”īrooks said that Unreal Matinee, in particular, was something of a revelation. “It’s allowed us to very rapidly prototype, and the visual interface has opened up quest creation to people who might view themselves as non-technical. “Our level design and gameplay scripting teams have used Unreal Kismet extensively – it’s our primary tool for bringing the world to life,” explained Brooks. “It gave a physicality to some interactions that a button simply can’t replicate.Īccording to Ben Brooks, senior scripter, Lionhead Studios, the company’s level design and gameplay scripting teams – 19 members in total – worked much more closely together on this game than previous Fable titles because the Unreal Engine’s game tools united these disciplines in a way that the studio’s old tools didn’t. “Kinect gave us the chance to let the player feel more involved with the world,” said Charlton Edwards, lead level designer, Lionhead Studios.
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