Fallout writer Scott Bennie dies aged 61

Scott Bennie passed away on Wednesday at the age of 61. He had collaborated as a writer on the first Fallout game in 1997, which came out for MS-DOS, Windows, and MacOS. His main contribution to the game was the name of Dogmeat, the player’s four-legged friend.

Bennie worked in the 1990s at Interplay Entertainment, the game studio behind the first Fallout game. There he worked mainly as a writer. In his own words, Bennie “didn’t have much to do with Fallout”. “It’s about a few maps, some bits of the Hub, some system messages and the Mysterious Stranger perk. And I gave Dogmeat its name. If anything sticks to my writing career, it’s that dog’s name.” he said jokingly in an interview with Steemit in 2017.

In addition to Fallout, Bennie has also written for a number of Star Trek games Interplay has created, including 1997’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. He also produced and designed Interplay’s RPG adaptations of the first two Lord of the Rings movies. books. The first part was released in 1990 for MS-DOS and a year later for AmigaOS. The second part came out in 1992 and was only available for MS-DOS. The games never appeared in Europe.

The writer has not only worked in the game industry. He has written books for various tabletop RPGs, such as Dungeons & Dragons.

Scott Bennie has died of pneumonia writes PC Gamer. Rebecca Heineman, the co-founder of Interplay, calls him ‘a great game designer and writer’ and says she’s going to miss him.

Dogmeat in Fallout 4