to have a cohesive plot and making the player's effort to save the character meaningless, for example. Former employees of Telltale Games have gone on to adapt the narrative aspects of these games into their own products. Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin, co-writers of the first season of The Walking Dead, decided to leave to pursue independent game development, founding Campo Santo in 2013 and releasing Firewatch, a critically praised narrative-driven exploration game. Adam Hines and Sean Krankel, both writers for Telltale, left to launch Night School Studio in 2014, subsequently releasing Oxenfree which heavily used a "walk and talk" mechanic as part of its gameplay. Four former employees that had left before the studio's closure—Michael Choung (who had briefly spent time at Night School), Dennis Lenart, Nick Herman, and Pierre Shorette—formed AdHoc Studio with the intent to develop live-action interactive video games, following in Telltale's footsteps. AdHoc has since become involved with the new Telltale Games by LCG to help with the narrative and cinematic elements of The Wolf Among Us 2. Telltale co-founder Dan Connors created a new studio in 2019, Skunkape Games, made up of himself and former Telltale employees Rodkin, Randy Tudor, and Jonathan Sgro. The studio is currently working on remastering Telltale's Sam & Max games with assistance from other members of the original development team, beginning with the remaster of Sam & Max Save the World in December 2020. References External links 2004 establishments in California 2018 disestablishments in California Companies based in San Rafael, California Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Privately held companies based in California Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Video game companies based in California Video game companies established in 2004 Video game companies disestablished in 2018 Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game development companies Video game publishers Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Spike Video Game Award winners