Today Fran and Jason talk a walk through Wyoming with Delilah and Henry in Campo Santo's Firewatch from 2016. Don't forget to use your antlers!

Spoilers begin at 1:19:00

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  • Field Notes: How Devs Recreate Wilderness In Gameshttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/making-of-ethan-carter-firewatch#more-243319M
  
  
  • Firewatch: hope and heartbreak in the American wilderness
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/firewatch-american-wilderness-campo-santo
  
  
  
  

• The Art of Firewatch

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdxQ3HlhTE8

• Firewatch's Wyoming fosters a bigger, weirder adventure than I expected
  
  https://www.pcgamer.com/firewatchs-wyoming-fosters-a-bigger-weirder-adventure-than-i-expected/

• Why less is more when it comes to Firewatch’s beautiful trees
  
  https://www.pcgamer.com/why-less-is-more-when-it-comes-to-firewatchs-beautiful-trees/

• Field Notes: How Devs Recreate Wilderness In Games
  
  https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/making-of-ethan-carter-firewatch#more-243319M

• Firewatch: hope and heartbreak in the American wilderness

         https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/firewatch-american-wilderness-campo-santo

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Art and Research by Francisco Martin

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