Last week, Peter (Molyneux), Cathy (Campos) and I went to the USA for a whole load of showing off Fable II at different places and to different people.
We started the journey in Las Vegas with a Gamestop event that took place. Still pretty under the weather because of this thing called jetlag, we were put in a room with five machines that had the E3 demo on them, and a sixth setup where I hooked up the development kit with the latest build for people to enjoy and for Peter to show off. It was SO warm at the airport, I still don't understand how Peter could be wearing both a jumper and jacket!
Peter and Sam arriving at Las Vegas airport.
Store managers getting some quality time with Fable II
During the afternoon that day, Peter was sat behind a desk to sign Fable II artwork (supplied by the Microsoft people who were attending the event). At first we were a bit worried no one would really care about this, but when we got back from lunch a line was already forming in the hall. As soon as Peter sat down it grew and grew and grew until it reached outside, around the corner into the next hallway!
People getting a personal message (game hint) from Peter and a signature.
In the end we had to close down the line because not everyone would be able to get a signature and we didn't want to dissapoint anyone.
The following day there was another event put on but the day mainly consisted of rehearsals, meetings and things like that. During the keynote in the evening I was too stressed to make pictures (playing the game as Peter did the talking) but hopefully Amritz has got some shots I can post.
The following day we went to San Francisco for a Fable II preview event (for journalists), they were allowed to play the game for around 2.5 hours and some interview time with Peter. This was pretty exciting and scary at the same time, to show 'your baby to the world'. I'm looking forward to reading their impressions next week!
This is where the San Francisco preview event took place.
After that we went to Los Angeles for a day but nothing worth photographing and putting on this blog...We're back in Guildford now, on Monday I am putting the final edit on Video Diary 7 and giving it to someone else to do the final audio mix. On Tuesday we're going to Singapore for GC Asia.