Creators on Reddit

Tim Cain

Co-creator of Fallout

u/TimCain ↗Personal account

How we know it's theirs

Moderator-assigned “Obsidian Entertainment” flair in r/IAmA

We retrieved 150 comments from u/TimCain, dated 2012 to 2026, most often in r/gaming, r/Fallout and r/IAmA.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/AskReddit

On “What video game line is so iconic that anyone can recognize the game it’s from?”

War never changes

u/TimCain replied

Hehe, I wrote that line during a commercial break while watching The Simpsons, and the rest of the introduction after the show was over. I’ve never written anything again as good, so The Simpsons must be my muse.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/Fallout

On “Todd Howard should go the Tim Cain route and have his face be the icon for the Fallout 4 exe file.”

This is the stuff of nightmares.

u/TimCain replied

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To be fair, I had no idea that icon was in the game. Another programmer added it secretly as the "large" size icon, and I never used large icons in Windows 95 so I just saw the regular Fallout icon. Unfortunately, after Windows NT, all Windows versions started using the large size icons by default, so that's what most people see now.

TLDR: I am sorry my head frightens you.

A redditor posted in r/Fallout

Possible Seussian connection to Fallout

My son (6) is a huge Dr. Seuss fan & we have gone through every book the man has ever written, including quite a few lesser known titles. One of those books is called The Butter Battle Book (1984) & it's a commentary on the futility of war (specifically the Cold War). It…

u/TimCain replied

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I would love to tell you that there was a connection. But the truth is that the colors blue and yellow were used for the vault suit in Fallout because they were under-utilized colors from the limited palette of colors we had to use, and I told the art director “use them or lose them”. That’s it. Nothing deeper.