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"You're not doing parkour off a roof, but the principles were the same": How the makers of Firewatch pulled from Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, and Bioshock to tell a new kind of ...

A decade after the release of Firewatch, two of its developers share what they attempted to achieve with their landmark game.
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"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling

Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more ...
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Acclaimed PS4 indie game Firewatch is coming to Xbox One this month

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