

“When it came to performance… the game stumbled,” Tørnquist said in a Medium post. Critically, the first three episodes were not well received. The game’s first episode, “Book One: Reborn”, was released on 21 October 2014, followed by “Book Two: Rebels” on 12 March 2015 and “Book Three: Realms” on 25 June 2015. “The Wii U is secondary to making the PC, Mac and Linux versions as good as they can possibly be,” Tørnquist said. Additionally, Nintendo had approached Red Thread during pre-production, asking for a Wii U release, but as Tørnquist told GamingBolt, the Wii U wasn’t a priority. While iOS and Android releases were added as stretch goals, funding fell short. Moreover, an additional $34,000 USD was raised over PayPal. Upon the Kickstarter campaign’s conclusion, Dreamfall Chapters raised $1,538,425 USD, 180% of Red Thread Games’ initial goal. “That’s where… The Longest Journey fans are,” asserted the project’s campaign page. A Kickstarter campaign was also used to secure funding, with Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux identified as primary platforms. The Norwegian Film Institute provided a series of grants to Red Thread Games: $1 million NOK (ca. As most of those employees were committed to completion of The Secret World, production of Dreamfall Chapters was put on hold until 2012. Publisher Funcom owned the rights to the franchise, but sold them to creator Ragnar Tørnquist’s after a decision to focus on online games like The Secret World. Working as an independent developer and producer, Tørnquist’s founded Red Thread Games and began to hire many of the franchise’s original developers. The sequel to adventure titles The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Dreamfall Chapters’ story was completed back in 2007.
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Dreamfall Chapters is now available in full on Xbox One and PS4, after a long and storied history that starts back a decade ago.
