Saving Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid, Music by Stuart Fox
One of the shows I wrote the music for recently has been out on National Geographic TV internationally. Its now all over youtube and various download sites – Heres one of the videos. This was an amazing project to work on, very very exciting stuff!
Time To Celebrate!!!!!!
While it was clear it was going to happen from the early days, its still amazing to see Dreamfall Chapters reach its funding goal on Kickstarter.
Congratulations to Ragnar Tørnquist and his team at Redthread Games and congratulations and thanks to everyone who’s backed this project. This is a true demonstration of the many people that have much love for the Longest Journey story and are willing to put their hands in their pockets to enable us all to continue the journey.
Early prototype In Game Screenshot
So the game we’ve been dreaming of and hoping for over the last 6 years is defiantly going ahead, and now we are shooting for as many stretch goals as possible. Stretch goals are commitments the developers make at various landmark points above the original target.
Its already clear that 900k will be achieved, and so we’ll get Mac and Linux versions of the game which will please many and be the first game in the series to offer an official version for these platforms.
Other than that, two other stretch goals have been revealed with more to come depending on how the fundraising goes:
Here are the first three stretch goals as published on the projects kickstarter page:
The team also released a video demonstrating very early prototype, in game footage which, frankly looks amazing.
This is going to be a landmark game, and for only $25 up front, you can not only give the project valuable backing, but also secure your own copy of the game when its ready. Its a Win Win, so head over the the projects kickstarter page and show some love.
DreamFall Chapters – Appeal for Kickstarter Investors
DreamFall Chapters, the follow up to the Epic, cinematic award winning adventure games The Longest Journey and DreamFall: The Longest Journey is in pre-production .
This news may mean nothing to many of you, but its news I’ve been hoping to hear for years.
The first two games draw you into a story, in which there are two worlds, Stark and Arcadia. One world of science, one of Magic. The two worlds are divided by the ‘Balance’ and only certain people known as ‘Shifters’ can travel between the two worlds.
I played the first of the two games back in 2000, and since then eagerly awaited the continuation of the story, because this series is all about the deep, immersive story that unfolds over this huge adventure.
Six years later and DreamFall: The longest journey is released and the story continues with an amazing, gorgeous world to explore and plenty of colourful characters to interact with.
The story climaxes with betrayal, blackmail, murder and tragedy with a sinister plot about to come to fruition. April, a main character from the beginning is left bleeding in the sea after being stabbed with a sword before falling off the end of a pier, Zoe, another main character’s physical self is left in a coma with her father watching over her, her spiritual self travels to the ‘story-time’, a place where all stories are told and heard. Zoe asks if she is dead. The story keeper does not know, but it does not matter here.
The first two games were published by ‘Funcom’, however, the series creator Ragnar Tørnquist has founded an independent game development studio, Red Thread Games to produce DreamFall Chapters. This will allow the team to make a “…Proper, mature chalenging adventure game, one without compromises…” Ragnar Tørnquist.
“For years it’s been our dream to tell more stories in The Longest Journey saga, and now we’ve finally brought together the core team behind Dreamfall for this long-awaited sequel” Says Ragnar Tørnquist.
So many questions, so much more to learn, and we are so close, since Ragnar Tørnquist and his team are funding this adventure themselves, they need backing, This is why the project now has its own Kickstarter page so the fans can fund a game they want.
The kick-starter page has a video, telling the story so far with footage and music from the original two games. I have to add here that the ‘DreamFall’ score by Leon Willet is truly amazing, its on my iPod! One of my favourite tracks from it features on the video above so check it out.
There are also links to buy the first two games, still immensely popular. An experience I’d recommend to everyone!
I’ll be watching the funding closely and counting down the days ’til I can resume the journey.