Forrest Byrnes — Up In Smoke

What if the in-world fire prevention mascot from Firewatch had his own licensed platformer back in the late '80s or early '90s? And what if in making that concept game, developer Nels Anderson and artist Christina-Antoinette Neofotistou actually re-skinned an older Japanese game—that had already been half re-skinned as a game about fire prevention!—that Nels had found on some random internet ROM forum? It’s the story of Forrest Byrnes: Up In Smoke!

Show Notes

• Nels Anderson on Twitter
• Christina-Antoinette Neofotistou on Twitter
• Jared Emerson-Johnson
• Gord McGladdery on Twitter
• A Shell in the Pit
• Olly Moss on Twitter
• Firewatch
• Firewatch Easter Egg (Spoiler!)
• Mark of the Ninja
• Smokey Bear
• Tiled
• Super Mario Bros. 2/Doki Doki Panic
• Yo! Noid
• Famicom
• Diablo
• Corel Painter
• Photoshop
• Yogi Bear
• ZX Spectrum
• Arduboy
• DuckTales for NES and Game Boy
• Forrest Byrnes: Up in Smoke game page on Playdate’s website
• Episode Transcript