cant speak for everyone but i really like this longer "unscripted" style. its nice to have as "2nd monitor content" no that thats a bad thing haha but for me i often like tho have something interesting playing while i play games or do other stuff. i bet other people can relate.
I dont get it. It looks the same as the normal game. Same style of graphics. Same colors. Trees are the same. Thought the purpose of all of this unreal engine stuff was to make it more lifelike
Oh my god this is awesome. I will check your progress sometimes, love this game and an open world Fable is an amazing idea. Good luck and hope it'll be playable in the future.
I hope this turns into a playable full build one day. BBB delivered on so much of Molyneaux's ideas but had to cut just as many, and looking at what you've done it almost feels like full open world was being tried in earnest but just fell out of the time table. They still have us an unforgettable experience so i hope they were happy with what shipped, cause i know i was. Played every version of this game to death haha
Remaking the game again has to be a very difficult job. I would like to learn since I have the necessary tools even if I don't know how to import and export all the files to unreal 5. I admire your work. Fable has a nostalgic affection in me 👍🏽 
Oh my God this is amazing 🤩 I NEEDED to see fable open world. I NEED to be able to explore this world myself like you did in this video. I am an indie dev who wants to make fable like EPGs and I have been trying to imagine what fable would look like if it were a small open world. I wondered if this was possible to do, holly crap this must have taken you a lot of time. Not sure how far you are going to take this but subscribed and will be following the development.
Thank you for the kind words! I have spent almost 400 hours on this project so far. At a minimum, I will be making "about" the first hour of the game. I have officially started content development, so that is exciting! I will be working on Fable until that "1st hour" is done, or until mid Summer, which ever comes later. I have my next remake planned already, which is an easier game by far, but really needs the remake treatment. Really fun game that is just really ugly to look at. I currently expect 100% fully remake that game though, but it is still a secret what that game is. :)
So for an everyday player, knothole Glade is probably 50% through the main game. The first hour (as I call it), is the intro in Oakvale, Guild training quest, wasp queen quest, and meeting maze in Bowerstone. I call that the MVP (Minimum Viable Product). Basically it is enough of the game to prove that this project would be possible to fully remake it if someone was to do that
@@Level_reDesign then are you trying to make the game fully playable as if it were originally made open world? I thought you were just making it possible to navigate everywhere. This is way bigger a project than I thought.
Yep, I am making the map a fully connected world for one, but not 100% open world. However, I am fully remaking all of the systems from scratch. So property management and combat for example, as well as remaking the AI for enemies
i did this with ocarina of time once, and for me the fun part came when I needed to invent and model new areas to fill in the negative spaces of the map, so it'd be proper square shaped. i brainstormed about the biomes and such missing from oot, - kind of treating majora's mask as a dlc and saying 'well, i need a beach, swamp, snowy area, maybe a spooky forest, maybe some zonai tropical jungle temple area, etc.' that's what evolved into my own side project #SPgame.
I really like how you have connected the areas so far. i only can imagine how hard some part have been or will be with those maps. huge respect from me. also do you plan to fill some of the connection spaces with your own ideas? i bet you could fit a nice little market area or something in that connection between warehouses and bowerstone south. BTW i really hope you get the attention on here you deserve.
Thank you for the kind words and excellent question. For the MVP, I will not fill in the empty space (except what I mentioned in Bowerstone because the whole point of the MVP is to prove that the full game is possible to port/remake in UE5. After I finish the MVP though, so am swapping out the meshes of the terrain with a single, fully custom made terrain object, where I will start filling in both the space between regions and empty space more as you mentioned
@Level_reDesign honestly GREAT job, i would have forgone the original graphics and went full hyper realistic for this as many hours as ive put into the first 2 games plus anniversary a fresh look is needed and with the new fable it proves you can do real and cartoony at the same time . still tho BEAUTIFUL job. really!!!
Funny enough, we are actually in an age where with Unreal Engine 5 and their Megascans free assets, hyper realism is actually easier to do than anything stylized, at least for the most part. I've been on a bit of a stylized kick the last few years though because I think we have an overabundance of "realistic" games right now compared to anything with a more unique style!
I have considered publishing a Patreon page as a way for people to support the projects, and get a monthly build in return. But I need more people who would be interested to make the amount I would get enough to actually be useful for development. I did create one, it just isn't published. Thank you for the kind words! :)
I actually really like this idea because it would allow me to have an area specifically to view the open world. I will probably do a portion as a cemetery, then I will probably do your idea of a lookout spot at the top of the mountain once I get an actual terrain object in as it would be easier to work with at that point. I love this idea; thank you :)
I've been a fable fan my whole life and I just found out about the project. Wow.. I really respect all your hard work to make it open world. Some questions: do you plan to release this as playable sometime in the future? Are you open to some kind of support, like a patreon? And will I be able to play it on a normal non gaming pc? Thanks:)
Calling it now, Microsoft is gonna take issue with you doing literally anything with their unused IP. You should do the Pokemon Uranium tactic of finishing and releasing it before they even know about it. By the time they realize it's getting attention, people will have backups of it.
I actually know that Microsoft executives are already fully aware of the project funny enough. My assumption is that they are waiting for me to try and charge for it, which I wouldn't do. The co founder of Big Blue Box studios even followed me on LinkedIn after seeing the project lol
if it were possible to tackle any area/chapter in any order more like a metroidvania, it would be awesome. same with turning the winding paths into more criss cross, less shoe leather, tigher, with more shortcuts and such. or add climbing and gliding and break everything, haha.
@@Level_reDesign yeah. i love the fable games, but I'm often frustrated by how on rails they are. i start a new game to explore again, but I often stop before getting out of the mandatory first couple of hours. so like 9/10 of the awesome adventures and cool places in the game, I've only experienced one time, and want to experience them again but can't without sitting through the opening couple of hours again, which always wears me down, haha.
this is actually cool and inspiring!I'm not sure if that would be helpful, but If you have the og fable and mods available I think there's a particular mod that connects all the regions.
I had actually wanted to use the Lost Chapters assets because I like their style more. And I had prototyped being able to upscale the textures and give them a hand painted style. It looked nice, but it took too long to get those assets from Fable, into blender, UV the models, then into UE5. Also, I just wanted control over the regions to do whatever I wanted. The main advantage of this project is being able to do anything I want. I want as few blockers to that idea as possible.
@@Level_reDesign I'm happy to see any content related to fable, its my favourite game, hope you'll finish your project, even though it's not for playing 😅
I do have a private build working where you can run around, buy/upgrade property, and collect rent, but that is all. I am officially starting content development now though, so actual gameplay is on the way :)
If you need a contributor I am an environmentalist and level optimizer. Would love to stitch your regions together. I have all the tools for stylized and realistic engineering.
I am sure this would be out of scope for the project, but it sounds like you are willing to change things around from the original game. Do you think you will add quests that weren't in the game? I think it would be cool to have those random doors in the guild lead somewhere, maybe even have some side quest where someone has been stealing and hiding stuff up there.
Excellent question! Yes, I will be adding custom quests at some point. Once I get the systems finished (such as quest, economy, combat and other systems) then I will be moving on to content development. I have a custom boss that I'm writing up a design document for currently that will have his own quest. Also, I will be fixing the real estate system from Fable 1 where you could only buy more property if you were evil and killed the owners. I want to make simple quests to make people willing to sell to you. For instance, what if a certain shop will only sell to you of you bring him a special gem, or if you sell 10 fake rings to a competitor. The big advantage of using Unreal over a mod editor is I can add anything I would ever want to, and I am not restricted to a mod editor's capabilities
@@Level_reDesign If you are willing to take suggestions, making the real estate system more like fable 2 or 3 would be a nice quality-of-life change where you can increase the rent outside of just upgrading or having to repair it as time goes on.
I am always welcome to suggestions and feedback (regardless of how harsh that feedback is). Thank you! Yes, the plan is to make the real estate system actually useful and not awful like in F1. F2 and F3 had much better property management. I will be taking some features from that. One example is the collection of funds. I don't want it to go straight into your pocket like in those games, but I also think it is stupid to go in front of every house you own to get the money. I'm thinking of having key buildings that you can buy after certain quests (so the servant quarters building in the guild is for sale after you graduate, or Maze's quarters is for sale after he dies). I think it would be cool to allow the user to pick up their funds at one single building rather than them all. This means the player still has to be intentional to use the system, which is what I want, but it takes away 95% of the annoyance. I have other plans to for the upgrade system that may be pretty neat, but those are still on the fence right this moment. Let me also mention that I am not taking every feature from those games for the system. I do not want repairs of properties personally for example
Are you creating any of the systems? Or just the environment (I see the channel name). Just curious as im about to start a project making a morality system like fables good/evil and was curious.
Great question! Yeah, the channel name is a few years old from when I focused as a level designer, but now I am a principle systems designer, which is my main expertise. Yes, I am creating all of the systems, the main ones done (good enough to be done for now anyways) are property management and some of the morale system. I am doing the creature and combat systems right this moment.
@@Level_reDesign how are you handling the morality. Out of curiosity. Do you have them stored in an instance file? Are you using a singular parent enemy to call to the instance to edit that variable?
Probably not, but a lot of that has to do with how unhelpful the FA editor is. Some people did make mods with it, but mostly just mesh and texture swaps. the Lost Chapters gets a lot more gameplay mods
@@alewikene Well, Fable Anniversary and its mode editor uses a special version of the Unreal Engine 3. To get it working in UE5, you would have to remake the game in UE5 technically. Then you would make a mode editor out of that
That is a great question! The short answer is I just haven't yet, but I have a longer, interesting answer as well. It is a task on my backlog on Trello. When prototyping this remake back in May, I did upscale textures for a few objects. Specifically the teleporter, bench, and level gates. That was with TLC assets though. I have done a test now in the picnic area using anniversary assets, but the results were underwhelming compared to the TLC upscale. Funny enough, I used an upscale designed for art, which gave the low res textures a hand drawn art style. It looked really cool and fit Fable well. It didn't do as well on FA assets though. I will upscale them, but I also plan on possibly replacing several assets at some point as well.
So far, the only frustrating part of this project has been getting good quality and well organized audio files ripped from the game. In my 3rd update video, I mention how the dialog audio are all 0.5 seconds short, and completely unorganized making it impossible to find the audio files I need out of tens of thousands of audio lines. So I'm just trying to find the best and quickest solution to rip the audio from the game and keep it all organized lol
@@Level_reDesign Hello, check out Avarice channel, i think he know absolutely everything about the game, and he also work on un-used content on fable and make it work, so i think he can help you for this problem or something else, good luck =)
Yep! Avarice is great! Him and I have been in contact for several months at this point. I actually started this project back in May using TLC assets with a custom exporter for chocolate box I made. I have a solution from him for TLC audio, but still a lot of manual work for that. It is better than my current solution though. :)
I need a counter for how many times I say the word "here" lol. That's why I write scripts normally :)
cant speak for everyone but i really like this longer "unscripted" style. its nice to have as "2nd monitor content" no that thats a bad thing haha but for me i often like tho have something interesting playing while i play games or do other stuff. i bet other people can relate.
I dont get it. It looks the same as the normal game.
Same style of graphics. Same colors.
Trees are the same.
Thought the purpose of all of this unreal engine stuff was to make it more lifelike
Oh my god this is awesome. I will check your progress sometimes, love this game and an open world Fable is an amazing idea. Good luck and hope it'll be playable in the future.
I hope this turns into a playable full build one day. BBB delivered on so much of Molyneaux's ideas but had to cut just as many, and looking at what you've done it almost feels like full open world was being tried in earnest but just fell out of the time table. They still have us an unforgettable experience so i hope they were happy with what shipped, cause i know i was. Played every version of this game to death haha
This is so cool, I love that you are doing this, I'd buy it. Love Fable.
Remaking the game again has to be a very difficult job. I would like to learn since I have the necessary tools even if I don't know how to import and export all the files to unreal 5. I admire your work. Fable has a nostalgic affection in me 👍🏽

You are doing god's work, thank you for keeping Fable alive.
WHY IS IT GODS WORK. WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THAT DUMB SHT..TF
Oh my God this is amazing 🤩 I NEEDED to see fable open world. I NEED to be able to explore this world myself like you did in this video. I am an indie dev who wants to make fable like EPGs and I have been trying to imagine what fable would look like if it were a small open world. I wondered if this was possible to do, holly crap this must have taken you a lot of time. Not sure how far you are going to take this but subscribed and will be following the development.
Thank you for the kind words! I have spent almost 400 hours on this project so far. At a minimum, I will be making "about" the first hour of the game. I have officially started content development, so that is exciting! I will be working on Fable until that "1st hour" is done, or until mid Summer, which ever comes later.
I have my next remake planned already, which is an easier game by far, but really needs the remake treatment. Really fun game that is just really ugly to look at. I currently expect 100% fully remake that game though, but it is still a secret what that game is. :)
@@Level_reDesign where does the first hour get you to, Knothole Glade? I am trying to remember I think you teleport there correct?
So for an everyday player, knothole Glade is probably 50% through the main game.
The first hour (as I call it), is the intro in Oakvale, Guild training quest, wasp queen quest, and meeting maze in Bowerstone. I call that the MVP (Minimum Viable Product). Basically it is enough of the game to prove that this project would be possible to fully remake it if someone was to do that
@@Level_reDesign then are you trying to make the game fully playable as if it were originally made open world? I thought you were just making it possible to navigate everywhere. This is way bigger a project than I thought.
Yep, I am making the map a fully connected world for one, but not 100% open world. However, I am fully remaking all of the systems from scratch. So property management and combat for example, as well as remaking the AI for enemies
People like you keep the gaming industry alive my friend. This is amazing to see
Thank you for the kind words :) it has been hundreds of hours of work so far, so it feels good when the content is enjoyed by others
Very cool stuff definitely exciting to stumble across this, great job.
i did this with ocarina of time once, and for me the fun part came when I needed to invent and model new areas to fill in the negative spaces of the map, so it'd be proper square shaped. i brainstormed about the biomes and such missing from oot, - kind of treating majora's mask as a dlc and saying 'well, i need a beach, swamp, snowy area, maybe a spooky forest, maybe some zonai tropical jungle temple area, etc.' that's what evolved into my own side project #SPgame.
I really like how you have connected the areas so far. i only can imagine how hard some part have been or will be with those maps. huge respect from me. also do you plan to fill some of the connection spaces with your own ideas? i bet you could fit a nice little market area or something in that connection between warehouses and bowerstone south. BTW i really hope you get the attention on here you deserve.
Thank you for the kind words and excellent question. For the MVP, I will not fill in the empty space (except what I mentioned in Bowerstone because the whole point of the MVP is to prove that the full game is possible to port/remake in UE5. After I finish the MVP though, so am swapping out the meshes of the terrain with a single, fully custom made terrain object, where I will start filling in both the space between regions and empty space more as you mentioned
Praying this goes live soon
@Level_reDesign honestly GREAT job, i would have forgone the original graphics and went full hyper realistic for this as many hours as ive put into the first 2 games plus anniversary a fresh look is needed and with the new fable it proves you can do real and cartoony at the same time . still tho BEAUTIFUL job. really!!!
Funny enough, we are actually in an age where with Unreal Engine 5 and their Megascans free assets, hyper realism is actually easier to do than anything stylized, at least for the most part. I've been on a bit of a stylized kick the last few years though because I think we have an overabundance of "realistic" games right now compared to anything with a more unique style!
this is epic! love the fable series and would be happy to sign up for a patreon if this could be released at somepoint :D
I have considered publishing a Patreon page as a way for people to support the projects, and get a monthly build in return. But I need more people who would be interested to make the amount I would get enough to actually be useful for development. I did create one, it just isn't published.
Thank you for the kind words! :)
So cool, keep up the good work!
05:53 A cementary that spirals up to the top of that mountain would be a really cool area
I actually really like this idea because it would allow me to have an area specifically to view the open world. I will probably do a portion as a cemetery, then I will probably do your idea of a lookout spot at the top of the mountain once I get an actual terrain object in as it would be easier to work with at that point.
I love this idea; thank you :)
@@Level_reDesign You can create a quest there too with ghosts where you need to collect the once again lost necronomicon just like in Fable 3
I've been a fable fan my whole life and I just found out about the project. Wow.. I really respect all your hard work to make it open world. Some questions: do you plan to release this as playable sometime in the future? Are you open to some kind of support, like a patreon? And will I be able to play it on a normal non gaming pc? Thanks:)
Just saw your other comment about the patreon - have you posted about the project on any fable subreddits?
Now I wanna play Fable again
It is a really good game although it is very unbalanced and some of the systems are busted. Still really good though. 😆
You’re doing God’s work here, friend!
That looks amazing! But why put a zone between Bowerstone South and The Docs?
Calling it now, Microsoft is gonna take issue with you doing literally anything with their unused IP. You should do the Pokemon Uranium tactic of finishing and releasing it before they even know about it. By the time they realize it's getting attention, people will have backups of it.
I actually know that Microsoft executives are already fully aware of the project funny enough. My assumption is that they are waiting for me to try and charge for it, which I wouldn't do.
The co founder of Big Blue Box studios even followed me on LinkedIn after seeing the project lol
Just made my day
Amazing
if it were possible to tackle any area/chapter in any order more like a metroidvania, it would be awesome. same with turning the winding paths into more criss cross, less shoe leather, tigher, with more shortcuts and such. or add climbing and gliding and break everything, haha.
Oh, turning Fable into a metroidvania is actually a genius idea lol
@@Level_reDesign yeah. i love the fable games, but I'm often frustrated by how on rails they are. i start a new game to explore again, but I often stop before getting out of the mandatory first couple of hours. so like 9/10 of the awesome adventures and cool places in the game, I've only experienced one time, and want to experience them again but can't without sitting through the opening couple of hours again, which always wears me down, haha.
This is incredible
Amazing, I love it,
Doing the Lord's work here 💪🏾
10:22 Is That Buildings Hanging Over The Canal. With Even A Shadow Under it...
I would love to be able to play fable in this remastered. Unreal engine version.
this is actually cool and inspiring!I'm not sure if that would be helpful, but If you have the og fable and mods available I think there's a particular mod that connects all the regions.
I had actually wanted to use the Lost Chapters assets because I like their style more. And I had prototyped being able to upscale the textures and give them a hand painted style. It looked nice, but it took too long to get those assets from Fable, into blender, UV the models, then into UE5.
Also, I just wanted control over the regions to do whatever I wanted. The main advantage of this project is being able to do anything I want. I want as few blockers to that idea as possible.
@@Level_reDesign I'm happy to see any content related to fable, its my favourite game, hope you'll finish your project, even though it's not for playing 😅
This is awesome! Is there a playable build yet?
I do have a private build working where you can run around, buy/upgrade property, and collect rent, but that is all. I am officially starting content development now though, so actual gameplay is on the way :)
If you need a contributor I am an environmentalist and level optimizer. Would love to stitch your regions together. I have all the tools for stylized and realistic engineering.
New sub🇪🇦
I am sure this would be out of scope for the project, but it sounds like you are willing to change things around from the original game. Do you think you will add quests that weren't in the game? I think it would be cool to have those random doors in the guild lead somewhere, maybe even have some side quest where someone has been stealing and hiding stuff up there.
Excellent question! Yes, I will be adding custom quests at some point. Once I get the systems finished (such as quest, economy, combat and other systems) then I will be moving on to content development. I have a custom boss that I'm writing up a design document for currently that will have his own quest. Also, I will be fixing the real estate system from Fable 1 where you could only buy more property if you were evil and killed the owners.
I want to make simple quests to make people willing to sell to you. For instance, what if a certain shop will only sell to you of you bring him a special gem, or if you sell 10 fake rings to a competitor.
The big advantage of using Unreal over a mod editor is I can add anything I would ever want to, and I am not restricted to a mod editor's capabilities
@@Level_reDesign If you are willing to take suggestions, making the real estate system more like fable 2 or 3 would be a nice quality-of-life change where you can increase the rent outside of just upgrading or having to repair it as time goes on.
I am always welcome to suggestions and feedback (regardless of how harsh that feedback is). Thank you!
Yes, the plan is to make the real estate system actually useful and not awful like in F1. F2 and F3 had much better property management. I will be taking some features from that. One example is the collection of funds. I don't want it to go straight into your pocket like in those games, but I also think it is stupid to go in front of every house you own to get the money. I'm thinking of having key buildings that you can buy after certain quests (so the servant quarters building in the guild is for sale after you graduate, or Maze's quarters is for sale after he dies). I think it would be cool to allow the user to pick up their funds at one single building rather than them all. This means the player still has to be intentional to use the system, which is what I want, but it takes away 95% of the annoyance.
I have other plans to for the upgrade system that may be pretty neat, but those are still on the fence right this moment. Let me also mention that I am not taking every feature from those games for the system. I do not want repairs of properties personally for example
Are you creating any of the systems? Or just the environment (I see the channel name).
Just curious as im about to start a project making a morality system like fables good/evil and was curious.
Great question! Yeah, the channel name is a few years old from when I focused as a level designer, but now I am a principle systems designer, which is my main expertise.
Yes, I am creating all of the systems, the main ones done (good enough to be done for now anyways) are property management and some of the morale system. I am doing the creature and combat systems right this moment.
@@Level_reDesign how are you handling the morality. Out of curiosity. Do you have them stored in an instance file? Are you using a singular parent enemy to call to the instance to edit that variable?
@@Level_reDesign thanks for the reply btw :)
How is the progress coming along? :D
Hey, I have a question, could the loading screens be eliminated by making the world open with the unreal fable annyversary editor?
Probably not, but a lot of that has to do with how unhelpful the FA editor is. Some people did make mods with it, but mostly just mesh and texture swaps. the Lost Chapters gets a lot more gameplay mods
@@Level_reDesign so Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Fable Mod, you can, so to speak, edit the game as you wish?
@@alewikene Well, Fable Anniversary and its mode editor uses a special version of the Unreal Engine 3. To get it working in UE5, you would have to remake the game in UE5 technically. Then you would make a mode editor out of that
@@Level_reDesign Thanks, the anniversary editor has many limitations, it only changes visual aspects but does not add new collisions to the terrain.
So been a year any progress or updates
why not use AI to upscale your textures to 4k
That is a great question! The short answer is I just haven't yet, but I have a longer, interesting answer as well. It is a task on my backlog on Trello.
When prototyping this remake back in May, I did upscale textures for a few objects. Specifically the teleporter, bench, and level gates. That was with TLC assets though. I have done a test now in the picnic area using anniversary assets, but the results were underwhelming compared to the TLC upscale. Funny enough, I used an upscale designed for art, which gave the low res textures a hand drawn art style. It looked really cool and fit Fable well. It didn't do as well on FA assets though. I will upscale them, but I also plan on possibly replacing several assets at some point as well.
Is there anything we in the community can help you with?
yeah i would be down to volunteer as well if im capable to do so haha
So far, the only frustrating part of this project has been getting good quality and well organized audio files ripped from the game.
In my 3rd update video, I mention how the dialog audio are all 0.5 seconds short, and completely unorganized making it impossible to find the audio files I need out of tens of thousands of audio lines.
So I'm just trying to find the best and quickest solution to rip the audio from the game and keep it all organized lol
@@Level_reDesign Hello, check out Avarice channel, i think he know absolutely everything about the game, and he also work on un-used content on fable and make it work, so i think he can help you for this problem or something else, good luck =)
Yep! Avarice is great! Him and I have been in contact for several months at this point. I actually started this project back in May using TLC assets with a custom exporter for chocolate box I made.
I have a solution from him for TLC audio, but still a lot of manual work for that. It is better than my current solution though. :)
It seems like has been done a game at 2010 year. You ought to improve yourself.
Thank you for the feedback. Please feel free to show me how to do it better :)
Would love to see your obviously better and fable texture stitching so we can compare notes with Level