We wanted to avoid the need to composite gameplay onto the Nintendo Switch screen, so the plan was for me to capture the gameplay which the crew could then "play" on the Switch during the shoot. Live-action production is complicated and expensive! But from years of watching Adventure Archives and Robby's daily vlogs, I knew they could pull it off. It's not often I have to give creative direction to other people, and putting so much trust into someone for a thing that can really only be done once. The ending with the clipboard is just one final tease of the greater mystery of the game to put in a little intrigue so the audience wouldn't think it's just a game about people talking (though with the game's dialogue and performances, that doesn't sound bad to me at all :P) I think it effectively got its point across in less time, and with fewer spoilers! In the original game he says: "We didn't break up, we didn't choose to break up, she got sick." I added some pauses to the line to make it sound like Henry is having difficulty getting his words out, and removed the line about getting sick.
In order to moderate the tone, and avoid Henry spelling it out, I recut the dialogue to make it sound like he's being cagey. After this there's some heavy with Henry talking about his relationship. The next bits about missing hikers is there to hint at the danger of the job without completely breaking the tone with something bleak.
This is how I arrived on the banter about the fire Henry put out, and also Henry playing Captain Obvious pointing out his tower’s visibility from far away. Instead, I selected dialogue to show a bit of Henry's job next to good character moments. I didn't want the dialogue flat out saying something like: "How'd you decide to get this job being a fire lookout?" because it sounded like a very dry way to do it.
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