Ultimately, she wasn't just a dog actor, but a companion to everyone who worked with her. He would bring her into the studio, partly to be recorded and studied, but mostly so the devs could spend time with her. Manage cookie settingsīurgess explains that River was 'the antidote' to one of his biggest worries with Dogmeat - that the pup would be treated as 'a canine weapon, and nothing more'.
(plus, writing about game dev hurts less than grieving) /ayN1Vd6oqQ- Joel Burgess JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. For twitter, I thought it'd be appropriate to look back at her impact on that game. Heartbroken doesn't cover it, but I won’t eulogize her here. I said goodbye today to River, who most of you know as Fallout 4’s Dogmeat. In a lovely Twitter thread that's made me a bit teary, he talks about River's role and how she wasn't just Dogmeat's in-game model, but a companion to both the player and team. She was owned by Joel Burgess, former lead level designer on the game, who would bring River into the studio so the developers could learn from her behaviour. River, the gorgeous German Shepherd who played Dogmeat in Fallout 4, has died.
