David Lynch's Josh Brolin's Campo Santo's Fire Watch With Me: A Motion Picture Event

[TychoCelchuuu]

 





Firewatch is a first person exploration adventure game where you play as a man named Henry, who is a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness a little while after the Yellowstone fires of 1988.



Your only contact with the outside world is via your handheld radio, through which you talk to your supervisor, Delilah. Your first day on the job, something mysterious draws you out of your lookout, and from that point on you begin exploring the wilderness.



The game will have a focus on narrative, dialog choice, natural conversations, exploration, and probably fire? But we don't know about fire yet.



It's coming out for Windows, Linux, and OSX, hopefully in 2015. It may also come out on consoles.




Sean "Famous" Vanaman: known largely for his DotA Today hosting duties and his motorcycle riding skills, Sean Vanaman was also a significant contributor to "The Walking Death," a graphic novel.

Jake "Video Games" Rodkin: Jake was raised in the wilderness of Wyoming by bears, which would make him uniquely suited to working on this game if the other developers had not also been raised in the wilderness of Wyoming by bears. Jake was a co-writer (with Famous) on "Walker Dead."

Olly "That Olly Moss?" Moss: Olly Moss makes sweet movie posters and, in his spare time, video games, it turns out?

Nels "Ander" Son: Head designer of Mark the Ninja and now designer at Campo Santo, Nelson is rumored to be involved in cyberpunk and cards.

Lord Chris "Boost" Remo: Chris Remo needs no introduction.

Jane Ng: Art person. She worked at Double Fine once, and her credits include Stacking and The Godfather (the game, not the movie).

Will Armostrong: He codes things.

Read the first Campo Santo Quarterly Review, compiled by the Campo Santo Ombudsman, to get a feel for the company.

• Official Website
• Slides from a GDC talk given by Famous, all about narrative and immersion
• IGN.com preview: "Why Firewatch is One of Our Most Anticipated Games of 2015"
• A bunch of wallpapers of that sweet art at the top of this post
• A blog post about the process of turning art into game models

[Twig]

I thought we already knew it was a real-time paper factory simulator. Plant and harvest your own forests! Deliver paper worldwide! Make your business large and successful enough, and you'll murder planet earth in an effort to fill orders! But you'll get rich doing it, so it's okay!

[tegan]

Lords Management, where the Lords are the thumbs.

[elmuerte]

I thought they would announce it today? Now I have to wait until tomorrow?! sjeesh

[tberton]

All I know is that the newsletter headline had better be "Campo Santo announces cool cool cool game".

[Merus]

Psychonauts 2.

[Justin Leego]

bleepgame.com

[Roderick]

Their game is this forum community, we've been playing it for over ten years and now finally it comes to fruition, bursting forth like a frothing Peter Molyneux from a cake.

[AaronChance]

It'll actually have two names. F**K for US audiences, and C**T for the Brits.

[Roderick]

And any 17th century disease for Dutchmen!

[Lu]

I am really curious!!

[Arthur]

You play as Park Ranger Wizard, a man who must face his destiny after he awakens an ancient evil.

[filk]

I'm fired up about this. Hope there will be a trailer to watch.

[prettyunsmart]

bleepgame.com

 

Because I'm simple, I just discovered that that directs to a likely-filled-with-spyware Minecraft clone.

[Entriech]

I'm frothing with excitement.

[Salacious Snake]

Our frothing demand for this game increases.

[Bjorn]

Froth: The Game

 

 

But in all seriousness, I think it's Spelunky: Lord's Management edition. Different spelunkers compete against each other for glorious treasure by commanding armies of bats, yetis and ufos in traditional arena combat.

[mikemariano]

[njoos]

Portrait Mode Tycoon

[Entriech]

Well I just inappropriately laughed loudly at the office.  Thanks mikemariano.

[Justin Leego]

Avatar froth enabled.

 

INITIATE FROTHING

[sclpls]

TWINE LORD

[ajr82]

It better have at least 8 weapons.

[Justin Leego]

Lords' Inventory Management

[SecretAsianMan]

The game had better blow me away or there's going to be hell to pay.