Fred Zeleny

Fred Zeleny is a developer who worked at Bethesda Softworks as a quest designer and writer on Fallout 3, as well as an additional quality assurance tester. He also worked on The Pitt add-on as one of the main narrative designers.

Contributions
On Fallout 3, Zeleny is credited under Quest Design & Writing, as well as Additional Quality Assurance. He worked on the Wasteland Survival Guide quest, The Superhuman Gambit, the "Letters to the Editor" terminal entry at Hubris Comics, and was also responsible for writing general dialogue. He served as one of the main narrative designer's on The Pitt add-on, alongside Erik J. Caponi.

Behind the scenes

 * During the development of Fallout 3, Fred Zeleny suggested a side quest that involved bringing an archive of old tapes to Three Dog to increase GNR's music rotation. According to Zeleny, the songs added would pull from "audio files you had set in a special directory on your PC or console." Though the execution was "well within reach," Zeleny stated that Todd Howard nixed the idea due to concerns over music rights and not fitting the game's "intended tone."
 * In 2020, Zeleny shared on Tumblr the design document they wrote that granted them their narrative design job at Bethesda Softworks, though he stated that none of it "turned into content" for Fallout 3.