Ferret Baudoin

Eric "Ferret" Baudoin was a developer who served as one of the game designers of Van Buren, Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3 project. He was later hired by Bethesda Game Studios and served as a quest designer and writer on Fallout 4. He was also the lead quest designer of Fallout 76 at launch, and was the lead designer on subsequent updates, including Wastelanders.Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:Ferret Baudoin: "I was a designer on Fallout 4, I did the Railroad, I did Deacon, I did Curie, I did all sorts of fun quests there. And I was the lead quest designer at launch for all the content for Fallout 76, and then post-launch, I was lead designer."
==Work on the Fallout series==
For Fallout 4, Baudoin worked on content for the Railroad, Deacon and Curie. He also created and designed the quests Human Error,Archived screenshot of Baudoin's LinkedIn resume The Silver ShroudEmil Pagliarulo on Twitter: "I created the character of the Silver Shroud, wrote all the radio plays. Most of the quest was done by designer Ferret Baudoin." and Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution.Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:Ferret Baudoin: "I did the Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution and so I was doing all sorts of research about rockets. My searches would be like, 'rockets how do I tamper and make them explode.' Like, that would be my search, right? And then I'd be like, 'oh no, that wouldn't quite do it, we need to make the rocket explode in a different way' so that you could tamper with it. So I kept doing search after search, and I'm like, 'if I'm not on a watchlist...'" He was also a senior designer on the Far Harbor add-on. For Fallout 76, he wrote a majority of the story for the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel.Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:Ferret Baudoin: "I did a lot of the writing for the Brotherhood of Steel at the launch of Fallout 76. And for me, I'm like, a big, huge Fallout Brotherhood of Steel fan. And to me, it was an awesome chance to sort of say like, 'let's explore some things that haven't been explored before that make sense.' Because Maxson has always been just a very intriguing figure to me. Just by talking about that, actually, there are nods to all sorts of things from various games. Fallout 1, probably, more than anything." For Van Buren, he originally designed the Maxson bunker and Hoover Dam, which were later passed on to other designers after he left Black Isle.
==Personal life==
Baudoin passed away suddenly, surrounded by family and friends, on October 15, 2022, following complications from cancer surgery.More information on the death of Ferret Baudoin, Fallout 76 Quest Designer/Lead Designer (/r/fo76, via Kenneth Vigue of CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast) News of his passing was shared two days later, with an outpouring of tributes and memorials to him.Obituary: Bethesda Game Studios senior designer Ferret Baudoin has passed away
==Employment history==
==Credits==
===Fallout series===
===Other work===
==Retrospective==
==External links==
* Buy Me a Coffee (support and memorial fund for Baudoin's children's college)
Interviews (text)
* Fallout Developers Profile - Ferret Baudoin (No Mutants Allowed - August 16, 2004)
* Bethesda wants to bring humanity to Fallout 76 through NPCs (GamesIndustry - March 9, 2020)
* Wastelanders "Ask Me Anything" (Reddit, with Jeff Gardiner - April 23, 2020)
Interviews (video)
* Bethesda Game Days – Fallout 76 Panel (Bethesda Game Studios - April 4, 2019)
* Bethesda Game Days 2020: Fallout 76: Wastelanders Preview (Bethesda Game Studios - February 29, 2020)
* Fallout 76 Wastelanders - Gameplay Interview (IGN, with Jeff Gardiner - June 30, 2020)
* Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020 with Mark Tucker and Ferret Baudoin (The Fallout Hub/QuakeCon - August 11, 2020)
* Fallout 76 Lore Dive with Bethesda's Ferret Baudoin and the Fallout Lorecast! (CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast - December 16, 2020)
Official developer gameplay
* Fallout 76: Wastelanders - Changes Around the Wasteland (Bethesda Game Studios - April 9, 2020)
* Fallout 76: Wastelanders - New Items + Gold Bullion (Bethesda Game Studios - April 9, 2020)
* Fallout 76: Wastelanders - Wendigo Colossus Fight (Bethesda Game Studios - April 9, 2020)
==References==
Category:Interplay Entertainment and Black Isle Studios employees
Category:Obsidian Entertainment employees
Category:Bethesda Game Studios employees
Category:Fallout 4 designers and writers
Category:Fallout 76 designers and writers
Category:Van Buren designers and writers
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