Peter Molyneux has revealed his next game will take place “in the land of Albion” – an intriguing announcement given Albion is also the setting of now-defunct developer Lionhead’s beloved Fable series, which Molyneux was heavily involved with before leaving the company.
This is the first concrete detail we’ve heard about Molyneux’s new game at 22Cans since he teased the project during last year’s Gamelab conference, saying it has a mechanic which has “never been seen in a game” before.
Molyneux revealed the game is currently codenamed MOAT, an acronym, last month.
His Albion tease came via a new post on Twitter (or X, if I have to call it that), where he also unveiled a regular blog in which he discusses his development processes.
This may be a decision I live to regret, but I am starting a regular blog about the crazy way I design games; namely a new game set in the land of Albion called MOAT. Along the way, I’ll be looking back at the development of Fable, Black & White etc.https://t.co/Mi7qdOvHzI
— peter molyneux (@pmolyneux) October 13, 2023
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It’s unclear how Albion will factor into Molyneux’s new game, given that Microsoft currently has a trademark on the Fable series and presumably owns the rights to the franchise. That doesn’t absolutely eliminate the possibility of an official Fable connection, of course, but it’s more likely MOAT will simply incorporate Albion as a more general concept – it is, after all, an alternative name for Great Britain that dates back centuries.