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Fallout creator says he was "ordered to destroy" source code that the studio has since "lost"


Fallout creator Tim Cain has revealed that he was "ordered to destroy" all of his notes, code, and prototypes from his …

Fallout creator Tim Cain has revealed that he was "ordered to destroy" all of his notes, code, and prototypes from his days at Fallout's original developer and publisher, Interplay, and as a result, no original source code or assets remain. Watch on YouTube"There's a lot of organisations out there that demand to be the archive keeper, and then they do a terrible job at it," Cain said. "When they finally, a few years after I left, contacted me and said 'oops, we lost it' I thought they were trapping me into 'we're going to sue you if you say you have it.'

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