Dreamfall Chapters announced by former Secret World director
Ragnar Tørnquist's new studio, Red Thread Games, will continue the story of The Longest Journey with the upcoming game.
Fans of acclaimed adventure titles The Longest Journey and Dreamfall will be pleased to know that series creator Ragnar Tornquist will be returning to his adventure game-creating roots.
The new title will be called Dreamfall Chapters and will be created by Tornquist's new studio Red Thread Games for the PC and Mac. According to an interview from website Rock, Paper Shotgun, the game will be continuing the story that started from PC title The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
Tornquist, who most recently was the director for MMO The Secret World, said that the team will be using Kickstarter to get funds to develop Dreamfall Chapters; so far it has received a grant from the Norwegian Film Institute. Concerning The Secret World, he said he will still remain as creative director for the MMO.
The PC adventure title The Longest Journey was praised for its story, graphics, and puzzles. Its sequel, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, was also praised for its sci-fi story and production values for graphics and music.
Born and raised from a jungle-laden village in Sarawak, Malaysia, Jonathan Toyad has been playing games since the early 90s. He favors fighting games, RPGs, and rhythm titles above every other genre, and occasionally spaces out like Pavlov's dog to video game music on his iPod.
Kind of surprised on this one. I know the game is kind of a cult hit, picked it up for that reason, though I havent played it yet. But since the last release was on the original xbox I didnt see this coming.
Heaven just got bestowed upon us by Ragnar and this team.
To anyone who hasnt played TLJ and Dreamfall, please go do so. The gameplays are weak (especially for DF) but in turns you will get to experience one of the best narratives ever told in video games, if not in any kind of entertainment.
This is great news
Its been five years but we are finally seeing some news on the new chapters.
Finally! I loved these games.
Good news!
Finally wonderful news.
Awesomee. Dreamfall, had one of the best stories. It was EPIC. Finally, waited for too long for the next episode of the series:D
abbbboooout tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime. tired of getting burned on those MMO's ??? :)
HELL YEAH
Best gaming news in years. Can't wait to see the other side of that cliffhanger!
I should get around to playing the first game someday before this comes out.
Wonderful, I've waiting an eternity for this.
Been waiting for ages
Great... I can't wait ...
Great news but rather overdue. I'm very glad that the planned MMO sequel was a bust and as much as I like The Old Republic I hope it puts an end to that fad of designers wanting to follow up single player games with MMOs.
Just noticed that TLJ and Dreamfall are up on GOG. Seem a tad over priced so I guess I'll wait for a sale.
Wow. This was probably the worst game I've played. Complete with long periods of doing nothing, lame voice acting, and insane load times exacerbated by the need for 8 FRIGGIN DISCS!
It's news like this that make me glad I'm not a game reviewer.
Tekcor To each their own. The Longest Journey is considered one of the best adventure games by many, and yes it is a long game (name kind of fits it).
Stiler I know it's true, I just find it hard to believe. My brother-in-law is an RPG nut. Pretty much all he plays. All the time. Even he found this game mind-numbingly boring.
Tekcor Stiler
I don't think an RPG fan would like this sort of game, its an adventure game, not even an action adveture, although they did try to add action elements but failed miserably. Dreamfall was a let down compared to the original, from the original just remember crow ... :D
both i like and i am nto a big fan of point and click!
Hell yeah, best news in a long time!!!
YES! finally!
This is such good news, wow just... I can't wait.
Dreamfall is easily one of my all time favorite games.
I'M THROWING MONEY AT THE SCREEN BUT IT'S NOT HERE YET!
Finally! I guess this will be my second kickstarter backing, Project Eternity being the first.
Dreamfall was amazing game! Loved playing as Zoe :) Good memories.
Oh, I've been waiting for a new "The Longest Journey series" sequel for a long, long time. The Longest Journey is a masterpiece, easily in my "top 10 adventure games list" - and I must say "adventure" is of my three favorites genres (side-by-side with RPGs and turn-based strategy games). Dreamfall was also very good, an one of a kind game. I'd prefer a traditional full length games, but if Tornquist believes episodic format is the way to go, well, ok, it's The Longest Journey/Dreamfall after all!
I was kind of avoiding Kickstater lately, at least until I got a few of the games I backed, but, what the heck, one who backs seven games will have no problem in backing eight.
I haven't commented on any news story in GameSpot for months, but Ho...ly...Crap. I've held off playing DreamFall for years so I don't have to be tortured for years, thinking about what would be next without any planned sequels. I'm not articulate enough to express how freaking amazing this is. I'll just have to read below and see.
this week, I also found out corpse party: book of shadows will be released in english. I guess miracles do exist.
I don't understand why more developers launch more kickstarter projects on these long awaited sequels. they would be funded instantly.
oh god? YES ! :D
woo hoo!!!
ill be backing this game for sure!!!
Good to see him going back to what he's good at.. I don't think MMOs were his forte.
vihazur
The Secret World MMO is actually very, VERY good. Perhaps, his passion isn't MMO's at the moment.
Elann2008 I thought it was really awful, but to each his own.
Wow, awesome
Now this is extremely exciting!
Both of these games just blew me away and go down as some of my favorite of all time.
This'll be the first Kickstarter project I fund. =)
Now if only Shenmue III would do the same... ¬_¬
Literally best news all year!
HE PROMISED!, HE DELIVERS!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED!!!! *FANBOY MOMENT!*
GeneralArrow Technically, no, he has not delivered yet.
Nice, I bought these games on a Steam sale. Haven't been able to play Dreamfall yet but TLJ was great.
I enjoyed playing Dreamfall back on the Xbox, but that was almost 10 years ago... I don't even remember what the story is about XD
sonic-boom Around 6,5 years ago, actually. Do yourself a favor, play it again! It's still amazing. You could also consider this an opportunity to play The Longest Journey, a masterpiece of adventures.
Great news for fans. :P
very good news :)
FINALLY. It's about damn time!
I'm going to read this a few times to make sure I read what I thought I did.
I honestly never thought I'd see the words "Dreamfall" or "Longest Journey" again. This is an awesome bit of news. Thanks Jonathan!
...is this real life? Is this actually happening?
I am surprised that Funcom wants to continue with this line of product.
(I am assuming that Funcom owns the trademark to the game, according to disclaimers under articles about this game, especially walkthroughs.)
Gelugon_baat What did you think of Dreamfall?
Fembot_Eulogy The stealth and fighting sequences were awful. The game should have stayed just an adventure game, instead of trying to mix gameplay from other genres.
About time! Can't wait to see the continuation of the story. I hope it will retain all the previous voice actor and actresses, they're amazing and I can't imagine them being voiced by different people.
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