What's the relationship with Lionhead been like?

Dene Carter: It's been really interesting actually. We started off Big Blue Box as a very, very small company, with very, very small company values. We announced Fable and we did an awful lot of groundwork for Fable, but it became very noticeable about a year and a half ago that what we had to do in terms of bringing everything up to console standard... Because of course console standard was different entirely to PC games - was just absolutely phenomenal.

So at that point it became a choice of, well, are we going to try and do what we can with the people we have or are we going to try and form an even closer tie with Lionhead and say "Come on guys is there any chance of some help from you"?

We had a very long series of talks with Peter and said, "Look we're going to need an awful lot other people working on this to finish it" and basically everyone all mucked in to get it done. So it's been all hands on deck for the last year or so. Pretty much everyone from Lionhead has come here and worked on it and it's been fantastic, but madness, absolute madness.