He breaks in and discovers surveillance equipment and typewritten reports detailing his and Delilah's conversations and private lives. In a meadow referred to on the clipboard letterhead, he finds a fenced-off government research area. He is beaten unconscious by an unseen assailant and wakes up to find the clipboard and radio gone. Two weeks later, Henry discovers a radio and a clipboard while fishing, with notes including transcripts of his conversations with Delilah. Two months after Henry started his job, a small wildfire breaks out south of his tower. Fearing an inquiry, Delilah falsifies reports to say that neither she nor Henry encountered the girls. He and Ned apparently left abruptly and never returned. Though it is against the rules for employees to bring their children to the towers, Delilah was fond of Brian and lied about his presence. Ned was an outdoorsman who drank heavily due to his traumatic experiences in the Vietnam War, while his son, Brian, enjoyed fantasy novels and role-playing games. Henry finds an old backpack and a disposable camera belonging to a boy named Brian Goodwin, who Delilah explains was the son of Ned, a former lookout. He and Delilah plot to scare the girls off, but when he finds the girls' campsite ransacked and abandoned, they begin to worry. He finds it cut, with a note apparently signed by the teens. The next day, Delilah asks Henry to investigate a downed communication line. He returns to his watchtower to find it ransacked. On his way home, he comes across a locked cave and spots a shadowy figure watching him before disappearing. Henry discovers a pair of teenage girls, who accuse him of leering. On his first day, Delilah ( Cissy Jones), a lookout in another watchtower, contacts him via walkie-talkie and asks him to investigate illegal fireworks by the lake. In the spring of 1989, after his wife develops early-onset dementia, Henry ( Rich Sommer) takes a job as a fire lookout in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. Objects found in the wilderness can be kept in the inventory for later use. The game also features a day-night cycle. As the story progresses, new areas will be opened up for players. The player's choices will influence the tone of Henry's relationship with Delilah. Players may choose from a number of dialog options to speak with her upon the discovery of new interactive objects or environments, or can refrain from communicating. Henry's only means of communication is a walkie-talkie connecting him to his supervisor, Delilah. Through exploration of the surrounding area, Henry uncovers clues about mysterious occurrences in the vicinity that are related to the ransacking of his tower while he is out on a routine patrol and a shadowy figure that occasionally appears watching him from afar. Players take on the role of Henry, a fire lookout who is assigned to his own tower in Shoshone National Forest. Henry interacts with Delilah using his walkie-talkie.Р”Р‡irewatch is an adventure game played from a first-person view that takes place in the American state of Wyoming in 1989. By late 2016, the game had sold over a million copies. Firewatch won the award for Best 3D Visual Experience at the Unity Awards 2016, Best Indie Game at the 2016 Golden Joystick Awards, Best Narrative at the 2017 Game Developers Choice Awards and Debut Game at the 2017 British Academy Games Awards. However, the presence of technical issues and the game's ending were both subjects of criticism. The game received generally positive reviews, earning praise for its story, characters, dialogue, and visual style. The design draws inspiration from New Deal advertisements by the National Park Service and field research conducted in Yosemite National Park. The game's environment was modelled by Ng, based on a single painting by Moss. The game was directed by Olly Moss and Sean Vanaman, written by Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Moss and Vanaman, and produced by Gabe McGill and artist Jane Ng. His exchanges with Delilah inform the process by which their relationship is developed. Henry interacts with Delilah using a walkie-talkie, with the player choosing from dialog options to communicate. A month after his first day at work, strange things begin happening to him and his supervisor Delilah, which connects to a conspired mystery that happened years ago. The story follows a fire lookout named Henry in the Shoshone National Forest, a year after the Yellowstone fires of 1988. The game was released in February 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, and PlayStation 4, for Xbox One in September 2016, and for Nintendo Switch in December 2018. Firewatch is an adventure game developed by Campo Santo and published by the developer in partnership with Panic.

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