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Some of the team leads behind the massive upcomingFallout: Londonmod forFallout 4revealed they are interested in developing a new game afterFallout: Londonreleases in April. The project leader cited 2022’sThe Forgotten Cityas a significant inspiration for this decision.
Set to be released on April 23, Team Folon’sFallout: Londonis an upcoming total conversion mod that will transport players to post-apocalyptic London. The mod takes place in 2237 betweenFallout 1andFallout 2, and about 63 years before the Sole Survivor leaves Vault 111 inFallout 4. Players awaken in an underground lab and must escape to the surface after a rival faction raids the facility. In development since 2019, it reportedly boasts an open world the same size asFallout 4’s, with five smaller hubs having a combined area equivalent to theFar HarborDLC.
Dual Shockers recently spoketo Team Folon’s lead developer Dean Carter and lead 2D artist Emily Kemp. While the interview was primarily aboutFallout: London’s development, Carter also took the opportunity to talk briefly about the studio’s plans afterFallout: London. While Carter stressed that he couldn’t speak for the entire team, he hopes that Team Folon will continue as an independent game studio, following in the footsteps ofForgotten Citydeveloper Modern Storyteller. Kemp also chimed in, describing Modern Storyteller’s success as “aspirational.”
2021’sThe Forgotten Citybegan life as a 2015Skyrimmodof the same name, which won an award from the Australian Writer’s Guild. This inspired the mod’s lead developer and writer, Nick Pearce, to establish Modern Storyteller and remake the mod as a standalone game. While Modern Storyteller benefited from a degree of government investment that the UK-based Team Folon is unlikely to receive, Carter is confident that it has something with great potential.
It’s unclear if Carter and the other members of Team Folon intend to remakethe upcomingFallout: Londonas a standalone game or if it has any specific plans at all. However, he believes that the team has come too far to simply go its separate ways afterFallout: Londoncomes out. “We’ve worked too hard and too long to not do something,” said Carter.
Of course,The Forgotten City’s developer had a hit mod before considering launching a professional studio. The same applies toTerra Invictadeveloper Pavonis Interactive, who previously created the popular Long War mods for Firaxis’XCOM: Enemy WithinandXCOM 2. Therefore, one might wonder if Team Folon is putting the cart before the horse. Then again, Pavonis and Modern Storyteller’s success shows this career trajectory is viable.
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