Ferret Baudoin

Eric "Ferret" Baudoin is a developer who served as one of the game designers of Van Buren, Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3 project. He was later hired by Bethesda Softworks and served as a quest designer and writer on Fallout 4. He was also the lead quest designer of Fallout 76 at launch, and was the lead designer on all of its updates.^[1]

Work on the Fallout series[edit | edit source]

For Fallout 4, Baudoin worked on content for the Railroad, Deacon and Curie.^[1] He also created and designed the quests The Silver Shroud^[2] and Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution.^[3] For Fallout 76, he wrote a majority of the story for the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel.^[4] For Van Buren, he originally designed the Maxson bunker and Hoover Dam, which were later passed on to other designers after he left Black Isle.

Employment history[edit | edit source]

From	To	Company	Role
1997	2001	Activision	Lead QA Tester / Production Coordinator
2001	2003	Cyberlore	Lead Level Designer
2003	2003	Black Isle Studios	Designer
2003	2006	Obsidian Entertainment	Lead Designer
2006	2012	BioWare	Lead Designer
2012	Present	Bethesda Softworks	Lead Designer

Credits[edit | edit source]

Fallout series[edit | edit source]

Year	Title	Credited as/for
-	Van Buren	Designer
2015	Fallout 4	Quest Designer & Writer
2018	Fallout 76	Lead Quest Designer Lead Designer (all updates)

Other work[edit | edit source]

Year	Title	Credited as/for
1997	Dark Reign: The Future of War	Quality Assurance Test Team
1997	Comanche 3	Team NovaLogic
1998	Remington Top Shot: Interactive Target Shooting	Quality Assurance Lead
1998	Battlezone	Quality Assurance Test Team
1999	Shanghai: Second Dynasty	Quality Assurance Tester
1999	Kingpin: Life of Crime	Quality Assurance Tester
1999	Heavy Gear II	Production Tester
1999	Civilization: Call to Power	Quality Assurance Tester
1999	Battlezone II: Combat Commander	QA Project Lead
2001	MechWarrior 4: Black Knight	Designer
2002	MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries	Designer
2004	Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Designer
2006	Neverwinter Nights 2	Design Lead
2009	Dragon Age: Origins	Lead Designer / Writer
2011	Dragon Age II	Lead Designer / Writer
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Additional Design

External links[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I was a designer on Fallout 4, I did the Railroad, I did Deacon, I did Curie, I did all sorts of fun quests there. And I was the lead quest designer at launch for all the content for Fallout 76, and then post-launch, I was lead designer."
↑ Emil Pagliarulo on Twitter: "I created the character of the Silver Shroud, wrote all the radio plays. Most of the quest was done by designer Ferret Baudoin."
↑ Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I did the Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution and so I was doing all sorts of research about rockets. My searches would be like, 'rockets how do I tamper and make them explode.' Like, that would be my search, right? And then I'd be like, 'oh no, that wouldn't quite do it, we need to make the rocket explode in a different way' so that you could tamper with it. So I kept doing search after search, and I'm like, 'if I'm not on a watchlist...'"
↑ Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I did a lot of the writing for the Brotherhood of Steel at the launch of Fallout 76. And for me, I'm like, a big, huge Fallout Brotherhood of Steel fan. And to me, it was an awesome chance to sort of say like, 'let's explore some things that haven't been explored before that make sense.' Because Maxson has always been just a very intriguing figure to me. Just by talking about that, actually, there are nods to all sorts of things from various games. Fallout 1, probably, more than anything."

[qc2020fo4-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I was a designer on Fallout 4, I did the Railroad, I did Deacon, I did Curie, I did all sorts of fun quests there. And I was the lead quest designer at launch for all the content for Fallout 76, and then post-launch, I was lead designer."

[2] Emil Pagliarulo on Twitter: "I created the character of the Silver Shroud, wrote all the radio plays. Most of the quest was done by designer Ferret Baudoin."

[3] Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I did the Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution and so I was doing all sorts of research about rockets. My searches would be like, 'rockets how do I tamper and make them explode.' Like, that would be my search, right? And then I'd be like, 'oh no, that wouldn't quite do it, we need to make the rocket explode in a different way' so that you could tamper with it. So I kept doing search after search, and I'm like, 'if I'm not on a watchlist...'"

[4] Bethesda Fallout 76 Interview ~ QuakeCon At Home 2020:
Ferret Baudoin: "I did a lot of the writing for the Brotherhood of Steel at the launch of Fallout 76. And for me, I'm like, a big, huge Fallout Brotherhood of Steel fan. And to me, it was an awesome chance to sort of say like, 'let's explore some things that haven't been explored before that make sense.' Because Maxson has always been just a very intriguing figure to me. Just by talking about that, actually, there are nods to all sorts of things from various games. Fallout 1, probably, more than anything."

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