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Fallout creator Tim Cain says he was "ordered to destroy" his personal archive of the RPG's development: "Individuals and organizations actively work against preservation" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 86 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seems easy enough to preserve old development files long enough to outlast the companies that own the IP. Just gotta not touch them for a decade or two and then "accidentally" find them.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days ago

In this case it was Interplay and Fallout did outlast them.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whoops I zipped them up and put them in a few s3 buckets and kept it on my computer. Oh no, well, you know there's so much that goes in what do you expect.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

People wrote in to the Giant Bombcast before to say that they were ordered to destroy code and materials at studios that were going out of business, and they instead hid drives with the files in the drop ceiling on their way out.