Dreamfall Chapters announced as episodic sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, as well as an MMO game being possible

1 March 2007

Posted by:Ferry

Funcom has announced that Dreamfall Chapters begins right where the critically acclaimed and award-winning Dreamfall: The Longest Journey ended, continuing the epic saga of the twin worlds of science and magic in download-only format at first. Funcom also seeks to further strengthen an already established IP, the potential for a future ‘The Longest Journey’ MMO increases.

Each new installment of Dreamfall Chapters will initially be delivered as online-only content, but there may be retail releases with combined chapters, both for console and PC, at a later stage.

Through thrilling episodes of Dreamfall Chapters, players will embark on an amazing and exciting journey through worlds both familiar and fresh to meet fascinating and surprising characters, explore beautiful locations, experience a deep and intriguing storyline – described by critics as one of the best stories ever written for a game – and enjoy uniquely varied modern adventure gameplay in a whole new way. And at the end of the road waits the greatest mystery of them all – one that will bring the groundbreaking saga to a surprising and stunning conclusion.

“We will be researching an online-only continuation of the epic ‘Longest Journey’ saga, and we very much look forward to develop new chapters to the Dreamfall gaming community,” said Trond Arne Aas, CEO of Funcom. “To see the Norwegian government take such an active role in nurturing the local game development industry [with financial support of nearly $250,000] is impressive. In return for their trust we aim to deliver a modern adventure game with unique qualities.”

Kotaku adds that this online distribution could prove to be as successful as the Sam & Max episodes. I tend to agree that bite-sized episodic content like that of Half-Life 2 and others would fit the adventure genre well.