High Voltage

High Voltage was the first pilot or beta to its final product Finding the Garden of Eden.

Production
High Voltage was a single animated opening sequence or preview animated in Macromedia Flash 8, edited, and finalized in Sony Vegas Pro 10 in 2011. It was published on the YouTube platform for a short time before being removed and re-uploaded in 2017 for reference purposes. The project was cancelled within the same year, but later on used as the final basis for Finding the Garden of Eden 's first development in 2015.

Themes and analysis
High Voltage was to be a post apocalyptic series based on the Fallout 3 universe alone, with no revealed plot other than the relationship of an Enclave Officer known as Avery, and his love interest Tesla Soldier Gabrielle Bradford (both becoming Atlas and Gabrielle Foster in Finding the Garden of Eden). Avery was supposed to be a soft-spoken, small framed, and considered to be a cute young adult on the exterior, but is later on revealed to have dissociative identity disorder, and is on a murderous rampage.

Development
While High Voltage 's original idea was mostly scrapped and reworked into Finding the Garden of Eden, it retained some of its other characters including early versions of Bruce and Chevelle; both starting out as vastly different characters and personalities compared to their final renditions. Finding the Garden of Eden kept High Voltage 's original intended romance theme, but put it on a lower volume and added themes of loss and sacrifice to the mix. Finding the Garden of Eden also uses higher levels of psychological horror compared to High Voltage 's plans, which were much more predictable and laid out.