Interactive Story Without Challenge Mechanics: The Design of Firewatch

In this 2019 GDC talk, Valve's Chris Remo discusses the ways in which the Campo Santo team succeeded (and came up short) in making deep interactive narrative design a vital part of Firewatch. Join the GDC mailing list: Follow GDC on Twitter: GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives.