No? Pretty sure there was some interview where someone from Asobo talked about getting help from Turn 10 with the Ftech engine for the games development?
And also was there not some social media or linkedin movement that indicated that folks from Turn 10 had worked with the Fable team? I might be misremembering something...
There was an affectively made up translation that some news site posted with someone at Asobo that was originally in french, they translation that they used was completely and utterly made up. It wasnt the case that they just ran it through google translate, it was completely fake. that fake article that they posted is the source of information saying that flight sim uses forzatech, and its wrong, you must have seen that article.
With fable we dont know what engine they are using, originally it was thought that they were using unreal, which makes sense because thats what lionhead were using for fable legends, (and maybe the other fable games? not sure), but there has been some evidence that they arent using unreal for fable, which leads people to assume that they are using some version of forzatech. For all we know they licensed the creation engine off of bethesda lol!
Just for completeness I'll go though the evidence that suggests that they are using a version of forzatech for fable. Firstly, there was a few job postings for an engine programmer at playground games a while back for fable that said something along the lines of 'you'll be using our proprietary engine', of course maybe the person that was hired would be expected to contribute to the forzatech engine for the forza horizon series while using unreal for fable, so its nothing definitive. Secondly, there is some evidence from peoples linkedIn who work at turn 10. Firstly, there was someone who was currently working as the lead fable tech sharing person, it seems to me that it would be unusual to need a dedicated lead tech sharing person if fable was using unreal, surely if they were using a different engine there wouldn't be that much that they could share between the teams. And finally, and imo, the biggest evidence is that Alan Hartman, who is the studio head of turn 10, has his job description on linkedIn as "Vice President of Forza and Fable" so turn10 are likely directly collaborating with playground on fable.
Also, there are a few employees at turn10 that have a lot of experience in character modelling and RPGs, who have joined turn 10 in the last couple of years, which I would naively assume wouldnt lend itself to making a racing simulator. For instance, David K Lam joined Turn10 in 2018 after spending 6 years at bioware working on dragon age and mass affect first as an associate art director, and then a senior art manager, and prior to that he was a character modeller at EA, eventually becoming a lead character modeller.
Obviously this is all completely anecdotal evidence, and some of it isnt evidence of anything, but putting it all together, on the balance of probability I would bet that playground is using a variant of forzatech for fable, (maybe called fabletech?, maybe they will just rename it ftech)
Also, look at what turn10 posted yesterday on linkedin, to quote:
"
We are constantly developing new experiences for players on the foundation of our world class ForzaTech engine, LiveOps tooling and Services backend. We are looking for an enthusiastic
#Producer to join our team and own defining and driving the next set of investments for ForzaTech in how we deliver configuration and player-facing Services for our suite of games!
"
link to the post:
Post | Feed | LinkedIn
So they are hiring someone to work on forzatech, but dont mention forza? Only refer to the games that use forzatech as "our suite of games" and "We are constantly developing new experiences for players on the foundation of our world class ForzaTech engine". Maybe the new experiences on the foundation of forzatech refers to fable?
Sorry for the long post, I get carried away with it when its something I enjoy talking about, patching together what engine fable is using is something I find really interesting
