Fable Legends Cancelled
Over on Facebook, Sean Smith pointed me to this article: Fable Legends Cancelled As Lionhead And More Close. Here’s the announcement on Xbox Wire.
It’s strange to know I’ve written a tie-in novel for a game that will never exist. But hey, does that mean Fable: Blood of Heroes is now a collector’s item?
I wanted to wish everyone at Lionhead the best. I’m sorry we won’t get to see Fable Legends. I can tell you there were a lot of fun ideas and characters in the game, and everyone I spoke to and emailed while working on Blood of Heroes was a pleasure to work with. Interacting with the fans over on the Fable boards was great too.
I know there were delays in getting the game into production, and it was pushed back several times. I don’t know any of the specifics as to why they decided to cancel it now.
My thanks to the team at Lionhead for giving me the chance to play in their world.
Sean Smith
March 7, 2016 @ 12:06 pm
So sad to see this game never be able to have it’s spotlight – as well as all the workers over at Lionhead Studios. The tie-in you had written was fantastic and I’m sure the game would have been as well if not for so many delays and problems from the company.
Jim C. Hines
March 7, 2016 @ 3:02 pm
Thanks, Sean. And yeah…bummed that we won’t get to see the game after all the work the folks at Lionhead put in over the past few years.
Martin
March 7, 2016 @ 3:07 pm
I am sorry for the guys and girls at Lionhead…. I played a lot of their games.
But also that isn’t too good for the book as well.
Jim C. Hines
March 7, 2016 @ 3:11 pm
Without going into details, let’s just say I don’t expect to earn out my advance on that one.
Laura Resnick
March 7, 2016 @ 8:44 pm
Oh, I’m sorry to hear this! You seemed to enjoy the writing and be excited about the project.
I had a somewhat similar experience with my only media tie-in novel, 6-7 years ago. There were plans for a series of books that would be tied into the game, and we had several conversations about them wanting me to write more books than the one they’d hired me for, and there are an excited call one afternoon in which they asked if I could be available to write a particular book as soon as this one was done… And then nothing. Never really heard from them again after the one book I wrote went into production. It was released, but I later found out by chance that the series was canceled.
Jim C. Hines
March 8, 2016 @ 5:22 pm
It was a lot of fun to write. And hey, at least I got paid, and the book did get published, right?
Are you able to share what media property it was you were working with? Because that’s just weird. Then again, when is publishing not weird?