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FALLOUT: VAN BUREN

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

Design Documents

Van Buren Design Documents (pdf)Download
Fallout Bible Complete (pdf)Download

Sources

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

https://youtu.be/LR4OxNfzTvU


Outer Worlds from Concept to Creation

https://youtu.be/7MRxaqbcVn0


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

https://www.gamesauce.biz/2010/09/08/behind-fallout-new-vegas-the-van-buren-legacy-and-learning-from-mods/


Damien Foletto 2005 Interview

https://www.winterwind-productions.com/an-interview-with-damien-foletto-part-1/


Feargus Urquart on CRPGs 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/keeping-the-faith-obisidian-s-feargus-urquhart-on-rpgs-and-pcs


Feargus Urquart 2

https://youtu.be/GNMQVcyowss


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

https://youtu.be/vi-ODz251O8


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

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iYWVjMmM0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZmI5NThhOGEtNmMwNy02YzA0LTFmYTgtYzU2ZTMyNTUxY2U2?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwio9s7Mj5b7AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg&hl=en


Chris Avellone Interview w/ NMA

https://youtu.be/qFsDAOsviBc


Credits of Van Buren

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Van_Buren_developers


Chad "Briareus" Nicholas on Real-Time Combat

https://web.archive.org/web/20210904114821/https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/briareus-speaks-out.152662/#post3023869


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

https://web.archive.org/web/20110724193222/http://www.frictionlessinsight.com/archives/2002/06/the-saga-behind.html


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

https://web.archive.org/web/20150626042820/http://www.thevaulttecinc.com/2014/05/canceled-fallout-games-history.html


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

https://web.archive.org/web/20150507234606/http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/troika-and-the-fallout-rights-where-did-i-read-that.10301/page-12#post-170807


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”

https://web.archive.org/web/20160421184522/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/editorials/interviews/7500-Feargus-Urquhart-Comes-Home.4


Chris Avellone - Former Unlucky Schlep

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/an-interview-with-chris-avellone---game-designer-writer-and-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

https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/1579582765695381505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1579582765695381505%7Ctwgr%5E3d7f95e8bfe14a37e5d6cf6ef9ef2d6421c0f763%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegamer.com%2Fnewblood-fallout-inspired-crpg-25th-birthday%2F


Project Van Buren

https://projectvanburen.com/


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