News Fallout-inspired game runs in Excel — a spreadsheet-powered wasteland escape from your daily corporate wasteland

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Modder creates a playable Fallout-esque RPG within the confines of Microsoft Excel.

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[evdjj3j]

"Since the Fallout series started as a result of a twenty-six year gap between Wasteland games"

Huh?

 

[Rokinamerica]

"Since the Fallout series started as a result of a twenty-six year gap between Wasteland games"

Huh?

Wasteland was released in 1988. It was rereleased in 2014 on Steam. 26 years later.

 

[TheyCallMeContra]

"Since the Fallout series started as a result of a twenty-six year gap between Wasteland games"

Huh?

Wasteland is the primary inspo for Fallout.

 

[35below0]

Wasteland was released in 1988. It was rereleased in 2014 on Steam. 26 years later.

Yes but 2014 is not the start of the Fallout series. That's a strange way of putting it.

 

[TheyCallMeContra]

Yes but 2014 is not the start of the Fallout series. That's a strange way of putting it.

You are Not reading that sentence correctly, my friend. He's referring to the Wasteland rerelease, and I was referring to Wasteland 2's 2014 release in my article, not just the rerelease.

 

[35below0]

You are Not reading that sentence correctly, my friend. He's referring to the Wasteland rerelease, and I was referring to Wasteland 2's 2014 release in my article, not just the rerelease.

I was replying to evdjjj3j's puzzled question about the 26 year gap resulting in Fallout. Which is incorrect but i know what you mean. Fallout was the spiritual successor to Wasteland, and the success of Fallout later led to Wasteland itself being resurrected and followed with a sequel, 26 years after the original Wasteland.

So we're all cool and on the same page, it's just the wording that was a little odd.

 

[joshua220]

The Fallout series originally started as a result of disputes over who had the rights to the name, with some of the original team eventually working to create a different post-apocalyptic series.

Where did you get that info? The only rights dispute that I'm aware of regarding the original Fallout was in regards to the GURPS system. Originally Interplay had secured the rights to do a CRPG using the Generic Universal Roleplaying System from Steve Jackson games, but they changed it to be their own custom system using the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. traits.

I have never heard that there was a rights dispute over the name "Fallout". In fact, I just watched Tim Cain's video about how the setting of Fallout was developed and he mentioned that the name didn't even get picked until the game was mostly finished.
Maybe you're referring to the later rights disputes that happened in the 2000's after Fallout 2 when there was a discussed MMO and canceled Fallout 3? That's not when the series "originally started out" though.

In that same video Tim Cain said that Wasteland may have been an influence, but the game was more influenced by post apocalypse fiction from the 50's to 80's like A Boy and His Dog and Mad Max.