Inside the canceled Project Van Buren, Black Isle's version of Fallout 3 that was in development in the early 2000s, its legacy on the franchise, how it impacted Interplay's closure and the careers of those that worked on it.
Featuring voices from:
Uninteresting Films
Eleven 17 Studios
Social Media Teaser Video
Unedited HD footage of Van Buren's Tech Demo
Fallout 1
GDC: Fallout Post Mortem w/ Tim Cain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OxO-4YLRk
GDC: Choice Architecture New Vegas w/ Josh Sawyer
Outer Worlds from Concept to Creation
Van Buren:
Tech Demo:
https://www.nma-fallout.com/resources/van-burens-technical-demo.71/
Chris Avellone Interview on Van Buren
https://www.pcgamesn.com/chris-avellone-interview
Sawyer Interview on Van Buren’s Legacy
Damien Foletto 2005 Interview
https://www.winterwind-productions.com/an-interview-with-damien-foletto-part-1/
Feargus Urquart on CRPGs
Feargus Urquart 2
The Last Days of Black Isle Studios
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-last-days-of-black-isle-studios
That Time Someone Else Was Making Fallout 3
https://kotaku.com/that-time-someone-else-was-making-fallout-3-1744268228
Chris Avellone Practice 2015
Polygon Article on Practice 2015
https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/16/9746264/fallout-3-van-buren-chris-avellone-nyu-practice-2015
Avellone Tweets on Fallout Bible
https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/683927652185444352?s=20
John Deiley Interview 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040110021453/https://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/johndeiley1.php
Chris Avellone Interview w/ Gamer’s Tavern
Chris Avellone Interview w/ NMA
Credits of Van Buren
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Van_Buren_developers
Chad "Briareus" Nicholas on Real-Time Combat
Community Concerns About Real-Time Combat
https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/concerns-from-game-development-of-tb-and-rt.152308/page-3
Van Buren Combat - Built from Forum Posts of Van Buren.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Van_Buren_combat
Chris Avellone No Mutants Allowed Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20051212140853/https://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=12668
Interplay
Interplay Losses and Fargo Departure
The Black Hound
https://www.unseen64.net/2020/01/19/baldursgate3-black-hound-cancelled/
Snowblind v. Interplay
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1057232/000117091806000499/ex10-20.txt
Baldur’s Gate 3 Development
https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/baldurs-gate-3-development
Layoffs
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/layoffs-at-black-isle-studios-as-interplay-cancels-key-project
FOBOS 2: Vagrant Lands and other Canceled Fallout Games
Interplay Crumbles:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/interplay-faces-bankruptcy-as-debts-continue-to-mount
SEC Archives on Layoffs:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1057232/000093583606000145/interplay8ka.htm
Brian Fargo Still Owns the trademark for InXile:
https://www.eurogamer.net/inxile-fallout-van-buren-trademark
RPG Codex Reporting on Van Buren Trademark
https://rpgcodex.net/article.php?id=9696
Van Buren in Wasteland 3:
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisavellone/status/914202649540440064
Fallout 3 and New Vegas
“We Never Bid on Fallout” Leonard Boyarsky
Bethesda Softworks to Develop Fallout 3
http://web.archive.org/web/20040713104039/http://www.bethsoft.com/news/pressrelease_071004.htm
Fallout IP Sold to Bethesda
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/-i-fallout-i-ip-sold-to-bethesda
Interplay Loses Rights to Bethesda
https://venturebeat.com/games/interplay-loses-fallout-mmo/
IGN Fallout History
https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/07/21/ign-presents-the-history-of-fallout
Obsidian Retrospective
https://kotaku.com/the-knights-of-new-vegas-5968952
Noclip’s History of Bethesda, Mentions of Apocalypse Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKn9yiLVlMM&t=8s&ab_channel=Noclip-VideoGameDocumentaries
15 Years of Obsidian
https://techraptor.net/gaming/guides/from-shadow-to-fire-15-years-of-obsidian-entertainment
The Rise and Fall of Troika
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-troika/
“Urquhart Comes Home”
Chris Avellone - Former Unlucky Schlep
Sawyer on New Vegas
https://www.engadget.com/2010-05-05-interview-josh-sawyer-on-fallout-new-vegas.html
Fan Mods
Fallout Yesterday Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/fallouty/posts
Beyond Boulder Dome:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/46907/
Beyond Boulder Dome Blog
http://beyondmodding.blogspot.com/
Revelation Road: New Vegas Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/72044
Adam Lacko on New Blood
Project Van Buren
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