Tim Cain Explains How He Got Great Devs For Fallout, And It's Thanks To Free Pizza

Tim Cain Explains How He Got Great Devs For Fallout, And It's Thanks To Free Pizza

From TheGamer (Written by Rhiannon Bevan) on | OpenCritic

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Tim Cain created Fallout in the 1990s, giving us one of the most popular series in the gaming industry at large. However, he has not shied away from sharing how this very much wasn't what was envisioned at the time, as the first Fallout game was considered a "B Tier" project at Interplay.

So, how do you convince your coworkers to come and help you out of a game that seems much less likely to succeed than everything else the studio is working on? Turns out, all you need is pizza and passion.

In his latest YouTube video, Cain shares some advice with the next generation of game devs, telling them to stick with genres that they are passionate about. He cites Fallout as an example of how this can work, as it was the promise of free pizza that got devs to check it out, but it was the passion they had for the concept and the genre that got them to stick around and get the game off the ground.

"I got everybody together after hours, I just sent out an email saying if anyone wants to and meet me in a conference room, and there will...

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