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The third book of Dreamfall Chapters has been released to the public and the adventure game continues to reveal more information as the mystery deepens. (Read More)

Ragnar Tørnquist discusses Dreamfall Chapters' setting, video game crowdfunding, and the role technology has in the future in this extensive interview! (Read More)

We review Chapter 2 of Dreamfall Chapters, a 3D adventure game that continues the journey of.. The Longest Journey. (Read More)

There's a history of episodic games being crowdfunded, and while some turn out well, and others turn out poorly; and still others never happen. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters Book Two: Rebels will launch on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store for Linux, Mac and Windows PC March 10, Red Thread Games announced today via the game's Kickstarter page. (Read More)

Loudr has returned with their 8th game music bundle, and this time it features a number of great crowdfunded games. (Read More)

A look at the upsides, and downsides, of being famouse when running a video game Kickstarter campaign. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters is a Kickstarter funded episodic adventure game that continues the adventures from The Longest Journey (Read More)

After seven years and a Kickstarter campaign, fans finally get another chapter of The Longest Journey. (Read More)

By the time Red Thread Games launched its Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters in February, the studio had ditched its initial idea of developing an episodic adventure. Intentions aren't written in stone however, and an update from this week explains that Chapters will be episodic in its delivery after all. The switchback is meant to accommodate Red Thread's full vision for the game while still having something to offer fans in November, the launch date Red Thread had projected in its Kickstarter campaign. While the full adventure won't be ready at that time, Red Thread expects Book One, Chapters' equivalent of an episode, will be. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has a really cool concept, and the numbers tell me that I wasn’t the only person thinking that when the game was seeking funding. Dreamfall Chapters just flattened its initial goal of $850,000 and ended up raising almost twice that, and, much to the happy thoughts of backers everywhere, Book One of the five planned instalments is about to hit beta. (Read More)

PayPal freezes yet another crowdfunding video game account with no apparent recourse. (Read More)

Kickstarter has enabled a good number of games to be developed that otherwise wouldn't have ever made it off the drawing board. And what follows are just five games from that list; all which look phenomenal, and all of which are due to be released in 2014. Let's check them out! (Read More)

Hello, backers! It has, unfortunately, been a while since our last update -- mostly because the whole team's been busy preparing for (and attending, and recovering from) the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in lovely San Francisco. We had a fantastic... (Read More)

The official Dreamfall Chapters forum is finally live! Click & bookmark the following link www.theundreaming.com to register and get started. Your Kickstarter forum badges aren't quite ready yet, and we're still working on a technical solution... (Read More)

Hi all, After the end of the Kickstarter campaign, we still have a few limited edition boxes (and USB keys) left, and we're now offering those through PayPal -- but only until we run out. We're not making any more; that's why they're called 'limited... (Read More)

The decision for Ragnar Tornquist and Red Thread Games to use Kickstarter to fund a new Longest Journey adventure game was a good one - it's ended in emphatic success. The funding target was $850,000, the final tally was nearly double that: $1,538,425. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters' $850,000 Kickstarter goal concluded at nearly twice that yesterday, with a final pledge count of $1,538,425. The 3D adventure game is scheduled for release in November of 2014 and will launch on PC, Mac and Linux. (Read More)

The Kickstarter campaign for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has closed with $1,538,425 raised from 21,858 backers, an average pledge of over $70. “Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. We are grateful and humbled, inspired by your support and belief in this project and in us. Now it’s our turn to deliver,” Tørnquist wrote. (Read More)

Red Thread Games must have had a great weekend. The developer's Kickstarter for adventure game Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey came to a close with $1,538,425 in funding. While not every ... (Read More)

Crowd-funding drive for Dreamfall Chapters ends up with almost double its target. (Read More)

[Update] Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey's Kickstarter is over, and Red Thread Games made a haul, nearly doubling its original goal. (Read More)

$1,538,425That's what all 21,858 of you have generously contributed to the production of Dreamfall Chapters. One-point-five MILLION dollars. Just...wow. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. We are grateful and humbled, inspired by your support... (Read More)

As we enter the single-digit hours left on the clock, we wanted to remind everyone one final time about what each tier nets you in terms of rewards and goodies. For $25 you get...This tier may be bare-bones, but gets you the one thing that matters... (Read More)

Stretch goal update!With your generous help and support, we have so far achieved SEVEN stretch goals since passing our original goal. We are fast approaching $1,4 million pledged, and the one-and-a-half million dollar mark and The Director's Cut is... (Read More)

The Visual Evolution of Zoë CastilloOur esteemed art director Christer Sveen has put together a cool video describing the process behind the development and evolution of Zoë Castillo, the (dreamy) heroine of Dreamfall Chapters. This video also... (Read More)

Rewards update!For pledgers old and new, we have a brief update about versions and languages, and a full overview of the additions we've made to the rewards during this campaign. See below (or click here) for a handy chart showing the differences... (Read More)

It’s a famous computer RPG extravaganza this week! First, we have a spiritual sequel to Planescape: Torment with Torment: Tides of Numenera. It’s not an actual sequel to Planescape: Torment since they couldn’t get the rights, but it has many of the same staff members and takes place in a similar but original setting (intersection between various planes). The kickstarter set a new record for fastest kickstarter to reach $1 million in around 8 hours. It’s currently at $2.1 million so it has a good shot at breaking the all-time record for most money raised in a game software kickstarter (currently held by Project Eternity with just under $4 million). (Read More)

We have a big, huge video update for you guys today! In part one of this video update, Martin and Ragnar talk about our 'game spaces'. These are non-linear areas within the linear narrative, where players can slow down and take time out to explore,... (Read More)

THE SPOKEN WORD ACHIEVED!Lovers of dialogue, and French and German fans rejoice! It's been a fantastic day and we've just passed $1,250,000 and our latest stretch goal! WIN! To show our love and appreciation for your continued support and generosity,... (Read More)

Ragnar Tørnquist surprised and delighted many adventure fans when he recently formed his own studio, Red Thread Games, and announced that the team would at last be giving us a new installment in The Longest Journey saga. Since then, the overwhelming response to Dreamfall Chapters on Kickstarter has offered definitive proof that TLJ remains of the most popular adventure game franchises of all time. With the fundraising campaign soon drawing to a close, we had a talk with the acclaimed writer/designer to chat about the past, present and future of Stark, Arcadia, and his independent development studio in Norway. (Read More)

Red Thread Games has released a trailer for its upcoming Dreamfall Chapters that shows off how the game will look and explains the basics of The Longest Journey / Dreamfall’s fiction. (Read More)

Red Thread Games and Blink Studios have released some new in-game footage of the upcoming PC and Mac adventure game Dreamfall Chapters, which is a sequel to the popular The Longest Journey series of games developed by Funcom. (Read More)

Adventure game Dreamfall Chapters 's Kickstarter campaign is still going strong. Earlier today, crowd-funding for the Longest Journey and Dreamfall sequel passed the $1 million mark. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey's Kickstarter fundraising drive has accumulated more than $1 million of crowd-sourced capital, with 15 days still left to go before the campaign comes to an end. (Read More)

Red Thread Games have shown off a new location from Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, Europolis. Europolis is a key location in Stark, the series’ world of science (as opposed to Arcadia, the world of magic), and is a European city-state covering the former independent nations of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium and the Netherlands. (Read More)

It’s KickPicks time… again, so don’t forget your booties, ’cause it’s old out there… very old. In fact, it hasn’t gone unnoticed from many sage corners of the internet that Kickstarter seems to have become a hive of nostalgia and reanimated, long-lost franchises. (Read More)

The latest Dreamfall Chapters Kickstarter update contains the first sight of Europolis, a cyberpunk dystopia of dark alleys, and neon-bright corporations and nightclubs. Below, you’ll find the latest video, showing the city streets and providing an insight into the state of Europe in 2220. (Read More)

The Longest Journey obsessives will recognize Europolis as a setting initially slated to be included as a playable environment in Funcom's Dreamfall: The Longest Journey before being cut from the 2006 title. Europolis joins the fantasy world of Arcadia and the more orderly and scientific world of Stark as Dreamfall Chapters' currently announced areas. (Read More)

More than 14,000 backers have helped the Dreamfall Chapters kickstarter campaign sail past the $850,000 target with 19 days left on the clock. “Now it’s OUR time to deliver,” Red Thread said in the celebratory Kickstarter update post. “We promise to make the best game we can possibly make, one that lives up to your expectations and the legacy of The Longest Journey saga. A game that we can all be proud of.” (Read More)

In just over a week, generous backers have met and exceeded Red Thread Games’ US $850,000 Kickstarter goal for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. A new thank you video has been released, but the developer has also posted new stretch goals – Mac and Linux versions, something called The Loremaster, and at $1 million, “A Longer Journey”. More goals will be added as required and the team is teasing something called “The Longest Journey Home” as its final stretch goal. (Read More)

"And now it's our time to deliver," Red Thread writes in its Kickstarter success update. "We promise to make the best game we can possibly make, one that lives up to your expectations and the legacy of The Longest Journey saga. A game that we can all be proud of. A game worthy of your generous pledges. And we'll keep you involved, every step of the way. But first: stretch goals!" (Read More)

Two contrasting success stories this week. Dreamfall Chapters didn’t need a full week to reach its target and come the morning, the first stretch goal will almost certainly have been reached, adding Mac and Linux support. Unwritten needed almost every second to reach its goal but did cross the finishing line with a tremendous amount of support in its final days. (Read More)

Development on Dreamfall Chapters , the follow-up to The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey , will proceed as planned. This morning the PC adventure game hit its Kickstarter goal of $850,000. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, the hopeful Kickstarter sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, has met its funding goal in plenty of time. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has met its funding goal, developer Red Thread Games announced on Kickstarter. The goal was met with 21 days to go with 13,103 backers pledging $854,201 towards the $800,000 goal. A $900,000 stretch goal has been added, which will ensure the release of Mac and Linux versions, and the $950,000 goal will include the Loremaster. (Read More)

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey developer Red Thread Games has almost funded the project on Kickstarter with weeks left on the clock. To celebrate, the studio has published a new video showing off some very early gameplay footage. (Read More)

With Dreamfall Chapters at over 90% of its funding goal, Red Thread Studios has released a new gameplay video. (Read More)

Just as Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey got near its $850,000 funding goal at Kickstarter, developer Red Thread Games put up an early prototype gameplay video. You can see the heroine Zoe running around a rich, fully explorable, shiny forest environment called Riverwood, as well as the new hybrid interface that combines freeroam movement and classic point and click gameplay. (Read More)

The first part was the starter. This is the main course. The conversation continues, as Ragnar Tørnquist, Martin Bruusgaard and Dag Scheve go into detail on the plots and plans at the heart of Dreamfall Chapters. There is a huge amount to read, so sit back and eat your lunch at your desk, or relax with a glass of wine or cup of tea. Thought-topics covered include the magic of the mundane, the origins of storytelling, conflict, maturity, and pointing, clicking and other mechanics. (Read More)

In terms of anticipation and dollars pledged, this has been the week of Dreamfall Chapters but you already knew about that one, right? The Katchup concerns itself with all Kreatures, great and small, and there are plenty of newcomers this week, including Tom Hall’s keen platforming tools, Projects Awakened and Cornerstone, the mad and possibly brilliant Ritual Dementia and gorgeous light-speed drifter, Race The Sun. Some projects are teetering on the brink of failure but, as we have seen with the adventure game in the past, any news reports of Kickstarter’s death are entirely premature. (Read More)

The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, the point-and-click adventure games are receiving a long awaited sequel, Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. This campaign has already received an overwhelming positive response. Though some people felt like the $850,000 goal was going to be hard to reach, Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey campaign hit $400,000 in funds in the first 24 hours. (Read More)

The announcement of Dreamfall Chapters' Kickstarter campaign may have caught the attention of a few of you the other day. It certainly caught mine; after all, with news that the series is finally getting continued, us fans are hyper-curious about the direction it'll take. Thankfully, the dev team has always been mindful of its fans' interest, and today took to Reddit to answer a few burning questions. (Read More)

The Kickstarter campaign for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey launched this morning, and Ragnar Tørnquist's Red Thread Games hopes to conjure at least $850,000 in funding through it. That's the amount the Norweigan developer envisions will be enough to bring the Dreamfall sequel to a digital launch on PC in November 2014. (Read More)

A Kickstarter for the next entry in The Longest Journey / Dreamfall adventure series is now live. This sequel is not being developed at Funcom but by independent studio Red Thread Games by some of the development team members of Dreamfall including series creator Ragnar Tørnquist. (Read More)

Crowd funders have until March 10 to help Dreamfall Chapters meet its $850,000 goal. When Red Thread Games revealed that it was working on the long-awaited follow-up to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey last November, fans were pleased. (Read More)

Some of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns have been from industry legends, folks whose pockets fans want to stuff full of money so they can make their dream game, such as Tim Schafer, Chris Roberts, Peter Molyneux, David Braben, and Brian Fargo. The Longest Journey creator Ragnar Tørnquist may have that sort of recognition, but the Kickstarter his new studio Red Thread Games launched today to make a third game in the series, Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, is asking for a hefty chunk of change: $850,000. Get your credit card out, then. (Read More)

“Man of Adventure,” Ragnar Tørnquist and Red Thread Thread Games need 850,000 of your dollars to complete the Longest Journey saga. A Kickstarter launched earlier today for Dreamfall Chapters, and has already taken $149,476 in pledges. (Read More)

Zoë Castillo, the protagonist of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, will be returning for Dreamfall Chapters, along with two other playable characters. (Read More)

Annoncé au mois de novembre la reprise de la saga The Longest Journey qui s'est arrêtée il y a six ans avec Dreamfall : The Longest Journey, se voit maintenant lancé pour sa campagne de financement pour permettre la production de Dreamfall : Chapters. Cette suite reprendra très précisément là où c'est arrêté le dernier jeu, sur des événements dont je ne peux trop vous parler sans spoiler d'éventuels joueurs qui ne connaitraient pas encore cette série (la vidéo ci-dessous contiens par aillerus quelques spoiler sur la fin du précédent jeu vous êtes avertis). (Read More)

The Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey is off to a roaring start. Ragnar Tørnquist's return to the adventure series he launched in 1999 with The Longest Journey has gathered more than $250,000 of its $850,000 goal, less than halfway into its first day. (Read More)

Ragnar Tørnquist founded Red Thread Games with one immediate goal in mind: to finish the story he has been telling for a great part of his adult life. As this interview is published, the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters went live a couple of minutes ago. In readiness, I had a long conversation with Tørnquist, Dreamfall co-writer Dag Scheve and lead designer Martin Bruusgaard earlier this week. (Read More)

The lastest turn in The Longest Journey leads through Kickstarter, as Ragnar Tørnquist's new studio Red Thread Games has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for the upcoming Dreamfall Chapters. (Read More)

Chances are, if you played The Longest Journey, the sight of this single screenshot has now lulled you into a gentle, nostalgic reverie. This is our first glimpse of Dreamfall Chapters, the long-in-the-making third entry in the classic adventure series. (Read More)

The last time Ragnar Tørnquist said that Dreamfall Chapters, the episodic continuation of his adored adventure that began with The Longest Journey, was going to actually get made, he wasn’t telling his fans the whole truth. Dreamfall Chapters was something he wanted to make, he just wasn’t sure when he would get the chance to do so. It’s been nearly seven years since he first made mention of the game, after all. (Read More)

No, you're not dreaming, that's an actual work-in-progress screenshot from Ragnar Tornquist and Red Thread Games' Dreamfall Chapters. Beyond the single screen, the Red Thread website provided a handful of details about the long-awaited continuation of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. (Read More)