Agent_KaryoFirewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn’t spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more
thingsiplayWhat does “reactive storytelling” mean? I didn’t play Firewatch.
🔍🦘🛎I guess it’s the combination of two industry gameplay types: “voice on the radio” like in Bioshock, and “branching dialogue trees” like in Mass Effect. You choose when to start a dialogue with your counterpart over the walkie-talkie after things you notice, or you can choose not to mention something.
Landless2029Yeah but nothing you do changes major events. It’s pretty on rails.
You can replay it just to get different conversations though.