Q:Tell us a little about yourself. Where you are from, what are some of your other hobbies outside of games?
A:I go to school for Simulation and Game Design at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NC. Live there, too. I don't have any hobbies to speak of that I can't link back in some way to either playing or creating video games. So really, my life revolves around gaming in a very real way.

Q:What was your inspiration for creating this mod?
A:Fallout 3 is an amazing game. Expansive. Deep. The story is moving and the characters are well fleshed out. But in any game of such magnitude, there are bound to be oversights and bugs.
And that's not mentioning the mods. So much content has been added to this game as to make it one of the most expansive experiences on the PC one could ever dream of.
And that's where the problem lies. There are maybe thousands of mods on the Nexus with one-record changes. Little errors that someone long ago fixed. And all of this put into a game with only 255 "slots" for mods to be placed.
Fallout Remastered was borne out of a desire to make this game as good as it could possibly be, and to bring as much content together in a bugless format as possible. There are many automated tools that try to make this process easier, but ultimately they don't fix everything. A computer generated merge file just can't replace the studied eye of a human being who is trying to actively understand the intent of another human being.

Q:What did you find most enjoyable about the creation process of this mod?
A:Making the game run correctly for the users of the mod has always been the most enjoyable part of this endeavor. Kudos are nice, a Mod Of The Month award is certainly rewarding, but ultimately the biggest kick is that due to this mod there are many people out there who are enjoying a more stable, better integrated, and more enjoyable game.

Q:What were some of the challenges you came across making this mod?
A:Due to the way the mod is implemented, compatibility has been a challenge. There are so many mods out there that make changes to the way the game runs. Sometimes it's intentional. Sometimes it's accidental. And teasing out from the code which records need to take precedence and which are just side effects of a slip of the mouse is rather difficult sometimes.

Q:Roughly what was the total time it took for you guys to put this mod together so far?
A:In man-hours of coding total, it must have taken weeks of work so far. If you include testing, months. Every bit of code in this mod has been gone through with a fine toothed comb by so many people I can't even begin to count.
It's really a labor of love, more than anything.

Q:Do you plan on any more new features in your mod?
A:Absolutely. This is, after all, a mod still in Open Beta. It's very close to complete but there is so much more that is planned. First of all, a FOMM installer is definitely planned. NMM is not up to snuff for our needs as of yet, so that will have to wait until NMM is much more robust than it currently is.
Secondly we intend to bring the mod together in such a way as to reduce the amount of compatibility patches that are necessary by merging them together. Right now, as an Open Beta, our goal is merely to identify the possible incompatibilities and make the game playable with certain small patches. This leads to a huge list potentially to be loaded. However, by 1.0 we will merge these mods down into single large patches. Instead of loading a list of 6 mods, one would only load a single mod which contains the features of all of them.

Q:Do you have other mods you are working on? If so what might those be?
A:Fallout Remastered has been taking up most of my modding time, to be honest. There are a lot of cross-compatibility projects that have come out of this, so really while Remastered should gain many more patches and files under its banner, there aren't any big projects of a separate nature that I have planned.

Q:What are some of your favorite games besides Fallout 3?
A:Actually I find myself drawn to the older games in the Fallout series quite strongly. There is just something about their feel and their atmosphere.
As well, I love almost all of Bethesda's games. They harken back to that old style of gaming in which one has a huge world to explore, lots of quests to do, and can really get lost in the world which is presented... with better graphics, of course

Q:Do you have any advice for aspiring mod authors?
There is a lot of stuff to learn before releasing mods to the public. Often, an idea which seems simple in concept is actually very hard in implementation. But sticking with it until it works is definitely rewarding.
And always test things extensively before releasing them. Don't try to see if you can make it work, though. That's a mistake that I see all too often. See if you can make it break. Only then will you know how to make it work right.