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From Yellowstone to Grand Teton, Wyoming’s full of unpixelated places to explore in person. There’s good news for players looking to step away from the screen: unlike most video games, the world of Firewatch is really out there-and open to the public. Some are even inspired to take it outside: on online forums, Vanaman and Rodkin have noticed players asking about real-life places that look like Firewatch-and Google searches for “fire lookout jobs” spiked in the week following the game’s release. Since its debut earlier this year, Firewatch has garnered rave reviews and a loyal fandom. And then we’re saying, oh, by the way, there’s 15,000 of them.”įor Mother Nature: pretty easy. That’s what we’re telling a computer to do. “Trees are very complicated and have lots and lots of edges-imagine trying to draw a line around every single edge of a tree, including all of its leaves. “Computers really don’t like to make trees,” Vanaman explains. There’s nothing we can manufacture in a game to really stimulate that feeling in the pit of your stomach.”Īnother challenge for the designers was more concrete-or rather, not concrete all. You’re a living creature: very quickly you’re thinking in terms of shelter, water, food. “It’s a tricky thing to reproduce in a game," Vanaman agrees.“Being truly lost is intense. “But you can’t really let a player of a video game get that lost for long-because they’ll just stop playing.” “The experience of getting totally lost in the wilderness was something I wanted to include in Firewatch,” says Rodkin. Of course, in the virtual world even a boundless wilderness has its limitations. “The player feels alone whether there’s no people or a hundred people. Whereas in a wilderness setting, you could hide a hundred people.”
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“If the story was set in a spooky house-there’s only so much stuff that can reasonably fit inside a spooky house.
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“It was fun to use the scale of the wilderness as we were making the game,” says Vanaman. Instead, it offers a suspenseful storyline whose sometimes eerie feel is enhanced by its remote setting. Intended for adults, not kids-it’s rated “M” for strong language- Firewatch doesn’t rely on violence or dramatic explosions to captivate its players. That early field trip helped shape a game in which the outdoors is much a character as scenery. To help their game developers get a similar feel for the details, Vanaman and Rodkin took the team to Yosemite-the perfect place for staff to experience a dramatic Western landscape without straying far from Campo Santo’s offices in San Francisco. I pay attention to that much more now than when I was working on games about zombies.”įor a game designer, tiny details can matter just as much as the big picture. “Water creating valleys, people creating trails, the way the light looks at different times of day. “Now when I’m out hiking, I think about how natural spaces are the wearing of time,” he says. Vanaman’s knowledge of the Wyoming backcountry is personal: he grew up near Cody, hunting elk with his dad, fishing after school, and dodging thunderstorms and grizzly bears on solo backpacking expeditions.įor Rodkin-product of an admittedly less rugged childhood in Petaluma, California-long hours on the making of Firewatch have changed the way he looks at a landscape. Those designers are Campo Santo, “a small but scrappy” studio cofounded by friends Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman. Craggy peaks, towering pines, and delicate wildflowers are all reproduced in captivating detail-clearly the work of game designers who’ve mixed screen time with green time.
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When we saw the artwork from Firewatch, we immediately recognized the backdrop from our work protecting land in Wyoming. The game's main character is a man working alone at a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. So when does the virtual world catch our eye? Well, when it looks like this: We level up with a steep hike, and our idea of multiplayer is Frisbee on the grass. No surprise for a bunch of park people, we’re usually the last to know about a new video game.