- Funcom Community Hangout – Gamescom 2023 - 18 July 2023
For 30 years, gamers from all around the world have been experiencing and forming diverse and passionate communities around the vast virtual worlds developed at Funcom. These communities are invaluable and have always been one of the cornerstones in making great games even more amazing. With Gamescom 2023 happening next month in Germany, we want to take this opportunity to meet some of you in person! Folks from different Funcom teams will attend the event, so why not get together and hang out? We promise that everyone will have a bloody good time! After all, FUN is in our name, right? But to not be unfounded, here are a few things planned for this special occasion: Meet people from the Funcom team Try our special drinks to cool yourself. If you’re one of the first 100 people to attend, two of your drinks are on us! Have some snacks from our special selection to go along with a nice chat…
- The Park Wants To Feel Like A Stephen King Novel - 9 October 2015
MMORPG specialists Funcom have revealed more details about their ominous theme park-set single-player outing The Park . Although it’s the studio’s first solo-playing venture in nine years – Dreamfall: The Longest Journey in 2006 being the last – The Park takes place in The Secret World ‘s wider universe. The latest trailer asks ‘What is The Park?’, before taking a behind-the-scenes peak beyond the rope barrier as it arrives at an answer. …
- Dreamfall Dev Debuts Gone Home Meets Amnesia Draugen - 1 April 2014
It’s easy to forget that Red Thread Games is working on anything other than Dreamfall Chapters because, well, Dreamfall Chapters . But last year, the viking-est man in game development, Ragnar Tornquist, and his band of merry yarn-spinners announced first-person survival horror adventure Draugen , which does not sound much like Dreamfall at all. Tornquist has instead opted to plant its ragged bones between Gone Home and Amnesia, a description that has me quite intrigued indeed. Debut trailer below. …
- Dreamfall Chapters Has A Stark, Arcadian Trailer - 4 March 2013
We all have our cultural blind-spots. Knowing nothing about it, The Longest Journey disappointed me, because it wasn’t a high-speed jeep journey across a post-apocalyptic landscape , but instead a story about a girl with a magicface and two addresses or something. Oh, I don’t know, why isn’t Adam writing this article? I was quite happy polishing my purple men and their guns. Anyway, it seems that there’s now a trailer for the next Dreamfall game, which by a miraculous coincidence appears with less than a week to go on the Kickstarter campaign for that very same game . Conspiracy? I leave you to decide. (more…)
- Dreamfall Chapters launches Kickstarter - 8 February 2013
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. Dreamfall Chapters aims to conclude the adventure game trilogy, which spans three characters and several realities. Tørnquist struck out on his own after Funcom, where he created it, had no interest in making a third game. Red Thread has licensed the property and brought together a load of Funcom talent, including the co-writer a…
- Eurogamer Retrospective: Dreamfall - 26 April 2011
Oh, so on Sunday, in the middle of our yacht-based hammocking, my retrospective of Dreamfall went up on Eurogamer . The conflict the game generates in me was interesting to explore, and once again its moving story of faith and Faith won out. For instance, I utter: “This isn’t a game that’s worried about drawing in the kids. In fact, it’s imbued with a strong tone of melancholy that it absolutely does not let go of throughout. This is a downbeat game, and goodness knows that’s rare. But it’s not so one-dimensional as to be miserable. Within the trauma, the sadness, the directionless confusion of people’s lives, is a message of extraordinary optimism, a resounding cry of hope. Because there’s faith.” You can read the rest of it here . And I really whole-heartedly recommend reading my interview with creator Ragnar Tørnquist . I think it…
- Retrospective: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - 24 April 2011
The Longest Journey is my favourite game. It's not the best game ever made. It's not the best-written, although it's up there. It certainly isn't the best example of an adventure game. But it's the game that most touched me a game that literally changed my life. It changed how I think, an aspect of how my imagination works, and my philosophy. I'm not sure what higher praise could be offered. So when the sequel arrived, six years later in 2006, I'm not sure I could have anticipated a game more. What's so fascinating about Dreamfall is how it exceeded my expectations at the same time as letting so many of them down. As a game, it's a mystery. The Longest Journey (and you can expect spoilers for both games here, to their ends) told the story of April Ryan. An 18-year-old who found she could "shift", transitioning between a near-future of our own world, known as Stark, into an alternative…
- Funcom "tinkers" on new Longest Journey - 8 April 2011
Before MMOs - before The Secret World, before Age of Conan and before Anarchy Online - Funcom was known for superb PC adventure game The Longest Journey. Eurogamer cooed at Ragnar Tornquist and Funcom's creation back in 2000, awarding a massive 9/10 . A less memorable 2006 sequel, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, scored 5/10 . Now, not only has Ragnar Tornquist told Eurogamer that a continuation of The Longest Journey is possible, he's said he actively "tinkers" with it. "95 per cent of my time is tied up - no I guess the correct answer is 120 per cent of my time is tied up with The Secret World, and I use 25 per cent of other time to work on other stuff," said Tornquist. "I always have other ideas for the future. People always ask me about, for example, a continuation of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, and that's something I tinker with as well. "Right now the focus is on The Secret Wor…
