Originally released in 2017, the Fallout Tactics mod The Sum / Nous Aurons has garnered newfound attention kotaku (opens in new tab) reports that the anarchist arts project was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
The Sum / Nous Aurons has been on my radar for a while—Philip Pepe (opens in new tab)Creator of the great video game history resource, The CRPG book (opens in new tab), highlighted The Sum as one of the best games he has played in 2022. It takes the familiar presentation of classic 2D fallout and turns it on its head, presenting a completely alien environment with this familiar engine and assets. It’s a future shattered by the ecological and technological devastation we now face, in contrast to the alternate history, retro-futuristic nuclear apocalypse of the mainline fallouts.
The Sum contrasts Fallout’s competing imitations of old-world societies like Caesar’s Legion or the NCR with an optimistic, almost utopian view of new, forward-thinking and, yes, anarchist societies emerging from the rubble.
As Kotaku recently reported, The Sum received funding and support from two Canadian arts funds, and developer Hugo Nadeau explained in a statement to Kotaku that the final decision on who would receive funding rests with the eligible artists and that “no Government representatives can select or prioritize any of the projects at all.”
That’s not to say it was an easy process, as Nadeau explained to Kotaku, “It’s not uncommon for a lot of us to wait five to six years to get even more [funding for a project.]”It sounds similar to the highly competitive environment surrounding arts grants in the United States, but it’s still encouraging to see and I’m grateful that programs like these can facilitate projects like The Sum.
You can download The Sum / Nous Aurons latest version 1.7 ModDB (opens in new tab), and I look forward to trying it out for myself. Also, you don’t need to own a copy of Fallout Tactics to play The Sum / Nous Aurons – it’s both standalone and free.
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