![]() ![]() "We're working with a group called right now to help promote education around public lands in America. Few people can have come away from the game without some appreciation of our wild spaces. Campo Santo might have left the game behind, but some of its lessons are still part of the company's activities. It's thrilling to me." Activism and politicsįirewatch is about the American wilderness. I was so pleased that games can adopt some of these modes of design. Just the mix of quiet moments where you're not shooting things and you're just exploring and puzzling through the world and being spooked by a clunky noise. I thought the first four hours of Resident Evil 7 were sublime and then I understood that they had taken so much from Gone Home. The possibilities of what a game can be so broad now with the work that we're doing and Giant Sparrow and Fulbright and others. Vanaman's work on The Walking Dead did as much as anyone’s to thrust story into the center of gaming. Games that focus on story as much as mechanic - narrative games or so-called walking sims - are increasing in popularity. Now can we all just work together like normal instead of you being like some weird manipulator' so we got back to something more healthy." A look back at Firewatch "That was a mistake, though, because by the time I had some ideas to add, everyone was like 'Thank you. I don't want to suck all of the oxygen out of the room. I don't want to be the loudest voice in the room. I'm not going to have any ideas or say anything for months. "I had this idea where I was not going to say a word. One of the more outlandish attempts to try a new approach came from Vanaman, who decided to basically recuse himself from the creative process, just to see what might come through. "But we learned a lot from that about how to codify our processes and our pipeline and there were things we didn't throw out." You made a game that you liked and that sold well and your response was to delete everything and start over and give everyone new roles?’ He said, ‘Why not change half of it instead of all of it?’ And I was like, ‘Oh. "Amir Rao from Supergiant said to us, ‘So let me get this straight. “I don't want to suck all of the oxygen out of the room.” ![]()
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