Jason Fader

Oh, we were planning on having it happen anywhere. Just randomly spawning in the tumbleweed in the distance and letting observant players notice the pattern.

The more you tell me about WW radio, the sadder I get it was cut. :( You mentioned the list of WW radio characters isn't available to you anymore. Is that because you typically lose access to design documents when a game is finished? Or was it simply lost over time?

Well, I personally don't have access to the design doc since I'm no longer with Obsidian. I think a few characters were called out in it, but not a full list. I had most of that in my head and it would have gone into a spreadsheet if the feature moved forward.

Ah, that makes sense. It made me curious when you mentioned how much time you spent recording Temp VO. Was that kind of after work volunteering common during NV's development?

For me, yes. I had a lot of free time back then and loved working on the project. When I wasn't doing temp VO, I was doing tools programming to get things more efficient for the dev team. I basically did whatever I could to help the project :-)

Ah that's a fantastic quote! I think it's undeniable when you play NV that it was made with a lot of passion, and your response depicts that. :) In terms of programming, level design, scripting, modeling, etc, were there any particularly memorable bugs or issues?

My favorite was "Bob from Accounting". At the start of Honest Hearts (I think), you enter a cave and instead of emerging on the other side, you enter a dark room with an NPC named Bob from Accounting. If you spoke to him, your game crashed. We were all very confused :-p

I think I remember reading a quote where Chris Avellone mentioned that! :) Didn't the bug involve the player having a certain item in their inventory?