Eric Fenstermaker

Eric Fenstermaker is a developer who worked at Obsidian Entertainment on Fallout: New Vegas as a designer.

Work on the Fallout series[]

Fenstermaker's contributions to Fallout: New Vegas included level design, dialogue writing, and scripting. Fenstermaker developed all content and concepts for Vault 11,^[1]^[2] Beyond the Beef,^[3] writing dialogue for Craig Boone and implementing his companion quests,^[4] along with Veronica Santangelo.^[5] He also wrote the descriptions for the different levels of the statistics on the Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester,^[6] possibly wrote for Cliff Briscoe,^[7] in addition to creating Fantastic,^[8] No-bark Noonan^[9] and Silus,^[10] as well as writing all of Mr. New Vegas' radio lines.^[11] He or Roger Chang may have been responsible for the First Recon's motto.^[12]

Employment history[]

From	To	Company	Role
April 2005	September 2016	Obsidian Entertainment	Senior Designer

Credits[]

Fallout series[]

Year	Title	Credited as/for
2010	Fallout: New Vegas	Designer

Other work[]

Year	Title	Credited as/for
2006	Neverwinter Nights 2	Area Design
2007	Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer	Designer
2014	South Park: The Stick of Truth	Lead Writer
2015	Pillars of Eternity	Lead Narrative Designer
2015	Pillars of Eternity: The White March	Lead Narrative Designer
2018	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	Narrative Designer

References[]

↑ Fallout: New Vegas developer statements/Eric Fenstermaker on Vault 11
↑ Who in particular comes up with the indivual stories for each vault? Chris Avellone? The whole team? Obviously some have movie inspirations. But others seem just.. Fucked up and bizarre :/
Joshua Sawyer: I wrote the basic concepts for F:NV's vaults but individual designers fully fleshed the concepts out and implemented them. Vault 3: Akil Hooper, Vault 11: Eric Fenstermaker, Vault 19: Sydney Wolfram. Vault 21: Jorge Salgado. Vault 22: Jesse Farrell, Vault 34: Sydney Wolfram.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Who designed the White Glove Society questline (Beyond the Beef)? Hands down one of the best quests I've seen in an RPG.
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ You've answered about other characters in Fallout New Vegas but not Craig Boone. His companion quest was compelling. Who wrote his story?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker wrote Boone's dialogue and implemented his companion quest.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ I know that you wrote a couple of the quests, including Return To Sender, but did you help write any parts of the main storyline of New Vegas? If so, what parts?
Joshua Sawyer: [...] Eric Fenstermaker wrote Veronica and Boone.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Who designed the Vit-O-Matic tester? More specifically, who wrote the descriptions for the different levels of the stats?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Who wrote Cliff Briscoe?
Joshua Sawyer: i *think* it was Eric Fenstermaker, but I may be remembering incorrectly.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 5:14:10)
Joshua Sawyer: "'Who wrote Fantastic?' That was Eric Fenstermaker. Funny man Eric Fenstermaker."
↑ Who came up with No-Bark's character from fallout, he is so funny with all the nonsense he say?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Who created the character Silus? He seemed to really stick out from other Legion members as being more selfish and aware, even going so far as calling Caesar a "megalomaniacal, self-appointed dictator".
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)
↑ Joshua Sawyer on Tumblr: "Hello, and thank you. I believe that Eric Fenstermaker wrote all of Mr. New Vegas' lines."
↑ Who came up with the First Recon's "The last thing you never see" motto?
Joshua Sawyer: It was either Eric Fenstermaker or Roger Chang, I think.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[1] Fallout: New Vegas developer statements/Eric Fenstermaker on Vault 11

[2] Who in particular comes up with the indivual stories for each vault? Chris Avellone? The whole team? Obviously some have movie inspirations. But others seem just.. Fucked up and bizarre :/
Joshua Sawyer: I wrote the basic concepts for F:NV's vaults but individual designers fully fleshed the concepts out and implemented them. Vault 3: Akil Hooper, Vault 11: Eric Fenstermaker, Vault 19: Sydney Wolfram. Vault 21: Jorge Salgado. Vault 22: Jesse Farrell, Vault 34: Sydney Wolfram.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[3] Who designed the White Glove Society questline (Beyond the Beef)? Hands down one of the best quests I've seen in an RPG.
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[4] You've answered about other characters in Fallout New Vegas but not Craig Boone. His companion quest was compelling. Who wrote his story?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker wrote Boone's dialogue and implemented his companion quest.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[5] I know that you wrote a couple of the quests, including Return To Sender, but did you help write any parts of the main storyline of New Vegas? If so, what parts?
Joshua Sawyer: [...] Eric Fenstermaker wrote Veronica and Boone.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[6] Who designed the Vit-O-Matic tester? More specifically, who wrote the descriptions for the different levels of the stats?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[7] Who wrote Cliff Briscoe?
Joshua Sawyer: i *think* it was Eric Fenstermaker, but I may be remembering incorrectly.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[8] Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 5:14:10)
Joshua Sawyer: "'Who wrote Fantastic?' That was Eric Fenstermaker. Funny man Eric Fenstermaker."

[9] Who came up with No-Bark's character from fallout, he is so funny with all the nonsense he say?
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[10] Who created the character Silus? He seemed to really stick out from other Legion members as being more selfish and aware, even going so far as calling Caesar a "megalomaniacal, self-appointed dictator".
Joshua Sawyer: Eric Fenstermaker.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

[11] Joshua Sawyer on Tumblr: "Hello, and thank you. I believe that Eric Fenstermaker wrote all of Mr. New Vegas' lines."

[12] Who came up with the First Recon's "The last thing you never see" motto?
Joshua Sawyer: It was either Eric Fenstermaker or Roger Chang, I think.
(Joshua Sawyer Formspring answers)

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