Matt Grandstaff

Game company employee
Matt Grandstaff
Biographical data
Other names	Matthew Grandstaff Gstaff
Involvement in Fallout series
Games	Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas / Fallout 4 / Fallout 76
External links
IMDb	Matt Grandstaff
IMDb	Matt Grandstaff
MobyGames	Matt Grandstaff
MobyGames	Matt Grandstaff
Social media
@gstaffinfectionTwitter
@gstaffinfectionTwitter
Matt GrandstaffLinkedIn
Matt GrandstaffLinkedIn
Other links	Meet the Fallout 3 devs

Matt Grandstaff is a developer who served as the assistant director of community relations at Bethesda Softworks, and was credited on Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.

Career

Work on the Fallout series

Matt joined Bethesda Softworks as community manager in April 2007. Matt Grandstaff's role at Bethesda included acting as a point of liaison between fans and developers. As part of the marketing department working with Pete Hines, Matt coordinated information for Bethesda's websites, updated the media on new developments, and managed Bethesda's forum as an administrator.^{[citation needed]}

One of Matt's main contributions was the development of the Bethesda Blog, which regularly featured interviews with both developers and fans, as well as updates and news on Bethesda's roster of games. On Fallout: New Vegas, he was credited as an additional writer. According to Joshua Sawyer, Grandstaff and several other Bethesda developers wrote barkstring dialogue for generic NPCs.

Other work

In August 2019, he left Bethesda Softworks for Epic Games.

Employment history

From	To	Company	Role
April 2007	August 2019	Bethesda Softworks	Assistant Director, Community
August 2019	Present	Epic Games	Community Lead

Credits

Fallout series

Year	Title	Credited as/for
2008	Fallout 3	Community Manager
2010	Fallout: New Vegas	Senior Community Manager Additional Writer
2015	Fallout 4	Global Community Lead
2018	Fallout 76	Assistant Director, Community

Other work

Year	Title	Credited as/for
2009	Wet	Community Manager

Quotes

“I'm actually pretty busy most of the time. With the forums, I try to stay on top of what’s going on and participate in discussion. If there’s a way for me to “clear the air” on something, I try to do that when possible. I also work with the moderators and other admin of the forums to make sure everyone plays by the rules in the forums … you actually wouldn’t believe how much spam we get in the boards. On top of that, I try to keep folks in the office looped in with relevant information in the community.”— ORE Newsletter Nov 2007

“I guess I can also plug the blog that I’ve helped start up, Bethesda Blog. It’s always pretty fun to find interesting stuff that the community will hopefully enjoy. When I’m not doing that stuff, I’m also lending a helping hand to our marketing department. Next year sounds like it’ll probably be pretty busy with Fallout 3 being released. There should be some fun community-related stuff to look forward to. I imagine that my job will evolve into doing other new stuff over time.”— ORE Newsletter Nov 2007

“It depends day to day, but generally I try to get at least 2-3 hours of forum time in – which includes checking in on any issues that the moderators might have. If we’ve made a big announcement that’ll stir up the forums, I’ll try to commit more time to being in the forums that day.”— ORE Newsletter Nov 2007