downloading Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime

It’s not an everyday setup for a very small indie team to have an Art Director, but we had to cook with the ‘ingredients we had’. When we opened our fridge, we found an Art Director there who’s a classically trained pen and paper artist, with a knack for building worlds and a crush on chivalric culture. Milan B: Indie gamedev, in the traditional sense, is similar to ‘cooking with ingredients that you happen to have in the fridge at the moment’.

Where did it come from and where did you draw inspiration from? Matt S: The art style for this game is very distinctive. We think we’ve struck this balance with Fabular and feel that it’s a worthwhile project to risk our own livelihoods on, because it has the potential to add value to the gaming scene. Always wanted to broaden the horizons of what players can expect, but do so in a way that feels familiar and yet takes them to a place where they’ve never been before.

We’ve all been innovators in our respective fields of work. The curse of big companies is the huge financial risk involved in innovation which they are seldom willing to take. That’s when we decided to go for it officially, and realised that it was something we’d all been wanting to do before: to work on something with full creative control and without having to make compromises due to rigid company policies and seemingly unreasonable publisher requests. One of these projects was Fabular, and when it started to come together we felt it was something special and that we had to make it a reality. But we stayed close and did some hobby projects on the side. Back in the day, big development studios all went up in smoke in Hungary, so everyone started their own thing outside of gamedev. Milan B: It wasn’t that conscious of a decision. Matt S: What was the appeal of moving from the big end of town to start up an indie development studio? The game is coming at some point this quarter, and in the leadup to its release we had the opportunity to sit down with one of the Spiritus team, Milan Batowski, about where the idea for the game came from, and what they’re trying to do with it. It’s the kind of game that only an indie developer could come up with, and we’re glad it exists. Fabular: Once Upon A Spacetime combines science fiction spacecraft and battles… with the medieval in terms of the weapons you’re using. It’s not a combination that you would necessarily expect to see, but once you see it in action, it all makes sense.

Downloading Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime