User:TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead/Rock's Fallout Development Timeline

Interplay

• Oct 1983, Interplay Productions founded by Brian Fargo
• Jan 1988, Wasteland is released
• Circa 1991, Tim Cain joins Interplay Productions
• Circa 1994, Fallout begins development
• Dec 1994, Junktown, Mutants, and Ghouls were imagined for the game.
• Jan 1995, GURPS Survivors design document is written.
• Circa 1995, Chris Avellone joins Interplay Productions
• Sep 1997, Fallout is released
• Jan 1998, Tim Cain leaves Interplay Productions
• Oct 1998, Fallout 2 is released
• Circa 2000, Fallout 3 begins preproduction
• Circa 2000-2003, Fallout 3 pen and paper design campaigns take place
  • Designer Chris Avellone runs two separate campaigns set in the same world instance at the same time, actions of one group affects the other, this idea of a rival party progressing as the player character progresses through the main quest is reused for Victor Presper, who would have been the main rival of Fallout 3.
  • These campaigns served a prototyping ground for the game's setting and design documents
• Circa 2000, Fallout Tactics begins development
• Nov 2000, Fallout Extreme design document is written
• Mar 2001, Fallout Tactics is released
• Circa 2001, Brian Fargo departs Interplay
• Dec 2001, Fallout Tactics 2 is cancelled
• Circa 2002, Fallout 3 begins development
• Jan 2002, Fallout Bible #1 is published
• Feb 2002, Fallout Bible #2 is published
• Feb 2002, Fallout Bible #3 is published
• Feb 2002, Fallout Bible #4 is published
• Mar 2002, Fallout Bible #5 is published
• Jul 2002, Fallout Bible #6 is published
• Jul 2002, Fallout Bible #7 is published
• Oct 2002, Fallout Bible #8 is published
• Nov 2002, Fallout Bible #9 is published
• May 2003, Chris Avellone departs Interplay
• Nov 2003, Josh Sawyer departs Interplay
• Dec 2003, Fallout 3 demo is compiled
• Dec 2003, Interplay's Fallout 3 is cancelled
• Jan 2004, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel is released
• Jan 2004, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel 2: The Vagrant Lands design document is written
• Circa 2004, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel 2: The Vagrant Lands is cancelled
• Circa 2004, Fallout 3 rights are bidded on by Troika Games
• Circa 2004, Fallout 3 rights are sold to Bethesda Softworks
• Circa 2004, Troika Games design a new post apocalyptic game called Epic

Bethesda

• Circa 2003-2004, Bethesda internally makes a list of games they'd like to make, tertiary design for a post nuclear game called Apocalypse Road is created
• Circa 2004, Bethesda begins inquiries to purchase rights to produce Fallout games
• Jul 2004, Bethesda's Fallout 3 begins preproduction
• Mar 2006, Fallout 3 begins development
• Apr 2007, Fallout franchise in-entirety is sold to Bethesda Softworks
• Apr 2007, Fallout Online begins development
• Oct 2008, Fallout 3 is released
• Jan 2009, Operation Anchorage dlc is released
• Mar 2009, The Pitt dlc is released
• May 2009, Broken Steel dlc is released
• Apr 2009, Fallout New Vegas is announced
• Jun 2009, Point Lookout dlc is released
• Aug 2009, Mothership Zeta dlc is released
• Jun 2010, Fallout Online is announced
• Oct 2010, Fallout New Vegas and All Roads is released
• Dec 2010, Dead Money dlc is released
• Jan 2011, JESawyer mod is released
• May 2011, Honest Hearts dlc is released
• Jul 2011, Old World Blues dlc is released
• Sep 2011, Lonesome Road dlc is released
• Jan 2012, Fallout Online is cancelled
• Jun 2015, Fallout 4 is announced
• Jun 2015, Fallout Shelter is released
• Nov 2015, Fallout 4 is released
• Mar 2016, Automatron dlc is released
• May 2016, Far Harbor dlc is released
• Aug 2016, Nuka World dlc is released
• Nov 2018, Fallout 76 is released
  • Mar 2019, Wild Appalachia dlc is released
  • Jun 2019, Nuclear Winter dlc is released
  • Apr 2020, Wastelanders dlc is released
  • Jun 2020, Fallout Shelter Online is released
  • Jun 2020, The Legendary Run dlc is released
  • Sep 2020, One Wasteland For All dlc is released
  • Nov 2020, Steel Dawn dlc is released
  • Apr 2021, Locked & Loaded dlc is released
  • Jul 2021, Steel Reign dlc is released
  • Sep 2021, Fallout Worlds dlc is released
  • Dec 2021, Night of the Moth dlc is released
  • Mar 2022, Invaders from Beyond dlc is released
  • Jun 2022, Test Your Metal dlc is released
  • Sep 2022, The Pitt dlc is released
  • Dec 2022, Nuka-World on Tour dlc is released
  • Feb 2023, Mutation Invasion dlc is released
  • Jun 2023, Once in a Blue Moon dlc is released
• Apr 2024, Fallout TV Series premieres on Amazon Prime Video