Steve Massey is a developer who worked at Bethesda Game Studios Austin on Fallout 76 as a level designer. In the updated credits for Wastelanders, he was listed as a lead level designer. In the updated credits for Test Your Metal, he was listed as a lead designer. He later left Bethesda, having worked on the game from 2018 to 2022.
Career[]
Work on the Fallout series[]
On Fallout 76, Massey led the development of the Daily Ops feature, introduced in One Wasteland For All. He also wrote the holotapes The Golden Holotape[1] and Where am I?,[2] as well as Insult Bot's dialogue.[3] He helped review many random encounters for the game, including the Eyebot Pied Piper (for which he came up with the idea of adding music to the encounter)[4] and Unusual Pipe (for which he revised the Pipe... note).[5] Massey was also the lead designer on Expeditions: The Pitt.
As the lead level designer of Fallout 76, he worked on a number of major and minor locations in the game.[6]
Major locations:
- Camp McClintock
- Dolly Sods Wilderness
- Dolly Sods Campground
- Kerwood Mine
- Mama Dolce's Food Processing
- Fujiniya Intelligence Base
- Sons of Dane compound
- Summersville Docks
- Sunnytop Ski Lanes
- Tyler County Fairgrounds
- Tyler County Dirt Track
- Uncanny Caverns
- Watoga Emergency Services
- Watoga High School
- Wendigo cave
Minor locations:
Post-launch:[7]
In August 2022, Massey left Bethesda and thus work on Fallout 76 to pursue indie game development.[8] After departing from Bethesda, Massey was credited for additional design leadership.
Employment history[]
| From | To | Company | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2006 | January 2009 | Infinity Ward | Level Designer |
| February 2009 | October 2010 | Certain Affinity | Designer |
| October 2011 | January 2013 | Vigil Games | Senior Level Designer |
| February 2013 | August 2022 | Bethesda Game Studios Austin | Senior Level Designer |
Credits[]
Fallout series[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fallout 76 | Additional Design Leadership Lead Designer Lead Level Designer Level Designer |
Other work[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | Designer/Scripter |
| 2009 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | Additional Designer |
| 2010 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | Designer |
| 2012 | Darksiders II | Level Designer |
External links[]
Official developer gameplay
- Fallout 76: Daily Ops (Developer Gameplay) (Bethesda Softworks - September 17, 2020)
- Fallout 76 – Daily Ops Expansion I (Developer Gameplay) (Bethesda Softworks - April 8, 2021)
Interviews
- Fallout 76 - QuakeCon Dev Q&A - BREAKDOWN - The Pitt and Beyond (QuakeCon - August 24, 2022)
Podcasts
- QuakeCon 2021 Apocalypse Squares with Fallout's Voice Actors and Bethesda! (CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast - August 19, 2021)
References[]
- ↑ BGS_Steve on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ Steve Massey's website
- ↑ BGS_Steve (Steve Massey) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
- ↑ madmassey (Steve Massey) on the Fallout 76 Datamining Discord