A lot of people said a lot of really nice things about it. The people behind it, Wayside Creations, immediately started taking donations in the hopes that they would be able to make a series of it. It would appear that they were successful, because low and behold the first episode of the spankin' new Fallout: Nuka Break series has hit the internet.
I'm of course telling you about this primarily because it's awesome, and as a nerd it is my duty to tell you to go with all haste to watch it. I'm also telling you about this because a couple of very surprising things have happened here:
- People got together and made a very good fan film that could believably happen in the universe that it is set in.
- They asked for help in funding more of it, and actually received it.
- They then promised more content and delivered it.
I don't know how much time you spend around the internet, particularly the subset of internet fandom that puts out fan made productions (I understand that it's a place most people try to avoid), but that's not how things normally go down. On that list of surprising things, #1 is a rare enough feat indeed. Good fan films happen, but they are normally off just enough that you can't picture them as part of the established fiction.
As you go down the list, these things just get more and more rare. I can't tell you how many times I've come across good fan productions that promise more, but deliver only websites covered in permanent "Coming Soon" banners.
This certainly isn't always the producers fault. Funding dries up, ambitions exceed means, these things happen. That makes what Wayside Creations is accomplishing a truly special feat and I'm very excited that they are able to do it. The more quality original content that is produced for the web, the better. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer video game.
On a completely unrelated, but still related note, there have been additions to the blog page! Now available for your clicking pleasure is a suggestion box page, which will explain itself when you get there, and a recommendations page, which I'll update every few weeks with two or three things that I recommend. Links to both pages can also be found in the navigation bar up at the top of the page.