Telltale's The Walking Dead, arguably Vanaman’s best-known piece of game writing, was also about the intimate relationships between a small number of people. Not everyone who lives in a small town is a hick.”įirewatch wasn’t the first game where this aspect of Vanaman’s writing style showed itself. “I think it would be easy for a writer who didn’t experience what I experienced to get a little Deliverance-y. There’s a certain vibe of small town-ness that definitely influences the way I think about stories and characters. “If I hadn’t lived there, I might inject it with really pat, podunk stuff,” said Vanaman. The WyomingitesĬapturing the authentic character of the people who live in the place was also a priority for Vanaman. In the first six months, when he would draw the terrain, it just didn’t feel like the American West.” After their camping trip, they never had to have a conversation about that again. “His apartment looks across at a cathedral that was definitely built before the founding of this country. “He’s from Winchester, England,” said Vanaman. The trip was particularly valuable for Olly Moss, the illustrator for Firewatch.
“The mountains are created by completely different forces, but the drama is equal.” “Yellowstone and Yosemite are very different places, but they do have similarly dramatic geography,” said Vanaman. Since Yosemite was only a few hours from Campo Santo HQ, it was a more manageable trip. “With a larger budget, I would have taken everyone to Yellowstone,” said Vanaman. Instead of trying to explain, Campo Santo went to the source material.or as close as they could realistically get.įor "Camp-Out Santo," as Vanaman referred to it, the team traveled to Yosemite National Park. While Firewatch designer and Campo Santo co-founder Nels Anderson also grew up in Wyoming, conveying the scale and feeling of the American wilderness to the other members of the development team proved difficult. You don’t really get rid of it for the rest of your life.”īut Vanaman couldn’t convey that gorgeousness and solitude of the place to his team singlehandedly. “People go there because they’re captivated by the beauty and the aloneness," he said. "Growing up in that, it creates a certain feeling inside you when you experience either of those things. He has lived in Los Angeles and most recently San Francisco, but the impression Wyoming left on him is something he’s never been able to shake.
Growing up in there creates certain feelings inside you that you don’t really get rid of for the rest of your life." "People go to Wyoming because they’re captivated by the beauty and the aloneness. We felt like we could spend two years in that place.” And that’s what they did. “We all got ensorceled by the same image. Vanaman first pitched Firewatch to the rest of Campo Santo with this image alone, and it worked. "It was just so enigmatic, it stayed with me a long time.” “I had locked into the iconography of the lookout tower early, because I had seen one growing up in Wyoming," he said. That image of a lone watchman is one that stuck in Vanaman’s mind early in childhood. His newfound duties involve watching for any sign of fire from his lookout tower. We reserve the right to determine what is acceptable to our audience and may decline content at any time.Firewatch casts you in the role of Henry, who has recently accepted a job as a lookout for the National Parks Service. * All uploaded images will be manually approved by a HDWS moderator before being published live. You must be the copyright owner of the image.Featured: If accepted, your image will be used for the HDWS website banner and Facebook cover photo.We forward (85%) of each sale through PayPal. Once purchased, users will have the right to use your image for both personal and commercial projects.
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