It was just comfortable, and we just sat right into it. It was like having a conversation with an old buddy everytime we jumped in the booth, like putting on a pair of old slippers. We recorded it as a conversation, so Rich was on Skype in his home studio, I was here in my home studio, Shawn Skyped in and directed us. But then we finally got the scripts, and they finally found their Henry, and it was just so much fun. “So of course, I went through the actor thing of thinking I’d been replaced, or that they’d found someone more famous, because that happens all the time. “Sean reached out to me and said, ‘I’ve left Telltale and started my own company, we’re writing a game with a female protagonist, do you want it?’ I was like, ‘Yes! Is that even a question?’ and then it was a good two years before we started recording,” Jones says. The game was a long project, but a worthwhile one. I mean, it was such a dream job I wish they were open to sequels, but they’re not.” “I worked with Sean and Jake on The Walking Dead, and working with Rich was so easy, it was like a dream to have the reaction that people did when it came out.

“I knew Firewatch was going to be special just because of the team involved,” Jones says. Delilah is never shown on screen, so Jones’ performance is a core reason why it all works so well. Their relationship is romantic, tragic, and filled with a chemistry that games just hadn’t explored at the time of its release. Now living in a creaky tower, his only source of company turns out to be Delilah, a dry, sarcastic woman who communicates with him using nothing but a walkie-talkie. So in an act of reasonable cowardice, he escapes to Shoshone National Forest to become a park ranger. He can’t be there for her, meaning one of the only relationships he holds dear is beginning to fall apart. Henry is a man whose life has fallen apart as his wife develops the early symptoms of dementia. She mentioned a voice acting school in the San Francisco Bay Area so I called that day, started taking classes, and two years later I was signed with an agent and moved to Los Angeles to make a go of it.”įirewatch is a first-person narrative adventure that follows the wayward souls of Henry and Delilah. About two weeks after talking with my husband about The Simpsons, I was listening to the radio in the morning and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, was talking about how amazing voice acting is. “I worked for a venture capital firm, I worked for several startups, and I always just felt like a square peg in a round hole. “I have a degree in Business and Spanish, and I spent the first ten years after graduating working in Silicon Valley,” she explains. I just thought you had to be in Hollywood,” voice actor Cissy Jones tells me about the origins of her career, something that spawned from recognising her own unhappiness and striving for something that would give her life meaning.

“I was talking to my husband about dream jobs and said ‘I’ve always wanted to be a voice on The Simpsons, wouldn’t that be so much fun?’ but I had no idea there was a thing called voiceover.

Firewatch characters