Carl McKevitt is a developer who works at Bethesda Game Studios on Fallout 76 as a quest designer and writer. He is currently a lead designer on Fallout 76,[1] and has held a number of credited roles as quest designer.[2]
Career[]
Work on the Fallout series[]
Carl started out on Fallout 76 a few months before the game launched, helping with some minor work pre-release.[3] However, he only started his major quest design work with Wild Appalachia, in which he worked on the Lying Lowe quest line.[3][4] Afterwards, he was a quest designer on every major update, including Steel Dawn and Steel Reign, until after the Night of the Moth update, when he transitioned into the role of senior quest designer.[3][4] Since then, he has been more involved with overseeing teams, as well as collaborating with studios like Double Eleven, rather than direct content creation;[3] for example, his work on Expeditions: The Pitt was more focused on feedback and playtesting.[5] However, he did also contribute significantly to the Once in a Blue Moon update.[3]
Carl was the primary designer for the Blue Ridge Caravan Company.[6] The character of Aries was a passion project for Carl; he has discussed balancing telling characters' stories, with those characters being a part of the player's story.[3] He also worked on Grahm's Meat-Cook with Ellys Tan, as well as The Mothman Equinox.[7] As of 2024, Carl is a lead designer on Fallout 76.[1]
Carl is a member of the Bethesda Game Studios Discord server; in his posts, he often emphasizes that contributions to the game are a team effort and that the developers work closely together.[8]
Employment history[]
| From | To | Company | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Present | Bethesda Game Studios Austin | Lead Designer Senior Quest Designer & Writer |
Credits[]
Fallout series[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fallout 76 | Lead Designer (2024-present) Senior Quest Designer (2022-24) Quest Designer & Writer (2020-22) Additional Quest Designer & Writer (2018-20) |
Other work[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Rise & Destroy | Designer/Writer |
External links[]
Official developer gameplay
- Fallout 76 – Steel Reign (Developer Gameplay) (Bethesda Softworks - June 17, 2021)
- Fallout 76 – Night of the Moth Update (Developer Gameplay) (Bethesda Softworks - November 19, 2021)
- Celebrating 25 Years of Fallout! #Fallout25 (Bethesda Twitch.tv - October 7, 2022)
- Fallout 76 – Nuka-World on Tour (Developer Gameplay) (Bethesda Softworks - November 15, 2022)
- Nuka-World on Tour with special guests Carl McKevitt and Kismet! (Bethesda Twitch.tv - December 7, 2022)
Podcasts
- QuakeCon 2021 Apocalypse Squares with Fallout's Voice Actors and Bethesda! (CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast - August 19, 2021)
- Fallout 76 New Mothman Event Dev Dive with Bethesda's Carl McKevitt and Jon Rush (CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast - December 2021)
- Fallout 76 Developer Reveals Mothman Secrets (Fallout Lorecast - December 2021)
- 2022 Fallout For Hope St Jude Apocalypse Squares (CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast - December 18, 2022)
Interviews
- Carl McKevitt, Senior Quest Designer at Bethesda Game Studios (Bethesda.net - June 21, 2023)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carl McKevitt on Twitter: "Lead Designer @Fallout (76) @BethesdaStudios"
- ↑ Fallout 76 – Nuka-World on Tour (Developer Gameplay)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Carl McKevitt, Senior Quest Designer at Bethesda Game Studios
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 BGS_Carl (Carl McKevitt)
on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Carl (Carl McKevitt) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ Celebrating 25 Years of Fallout! #Fallout25 (reference starts at 0:05:27)
- ↑ BGS_Carl (Carl McKevitt) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
