Fable 2 Progress Report

Lionhead Studios' official website has been updated with a new progress report for Fable 2, this time revealing that the RPG sequel has reached the "first playable" milestone.
As I explained in one of my earlier updates, we need to regularly submit a milestone to our publisher (for the n00bs out there, that's Microsoft Game Studios) so that we can give them confidence in the development process of Fable 2. This milestone is referred to by the industry as the (first playable), but we will abbreviate this to FP. The FP is important during the development of any videogame; it consists of just a few areas, that are fully functional, this allows the team to work on the major components and basics of Fable 2 and get them to a stage where the game is completely playable for the first time. Before everyone gets too excited I should point out that this FP is internal terminology for a pretty key milestone but it should not be confused with what some people call Alpha, when the game is deemed ready for some hands-on time for journalists.