The new Norwegian ontwikkelstudio Red Thread Games is also a Wii U version of Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. The Wii U is for now the only console for which the game on the market will come. The game appears at the end of 2014.
Ragnar Tørnquist, founder of Red Thread Games in an interview with the website, Edge announced that a Wii U version of Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey to come. This was not foreseen when the studio, at the end of 2012 was founded by Tørnquist and a number of former employees of the Norwegian Funcom, the game announced.
Red Thread Games has tried early this year to raise money via Kickstarter to complete the development of the game to fund it, and brought it more than $ 1.5 million, almost twice as much as the budget of 850.000 dollars. The studio had also previously been a grant from the Norwegian Film Institute got the start-up phase of the project to fund it. As a result, the studio has the financial headroom to the desk version. Meanwhile, the studio has a Wii U devkit received. It is not known whether or not the desk version at the same time appears with the previously announced editions for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Red Thread Games hopes the game in november 2014.
The initiative to create a version for the Wii U to make it came from Nintendo, allows Tørnquist. The consolebouwer approached Red Thread Games already in 2012, immediately after the announcement of the game. The Japanese group was the first consolebouwer that the Norwegian studio approached. ‘At that time, however, we were not yet ready to make a choice for engine or platform”, says Tørnquist. When the collection through Kickstarter was successful, Red Thread Games again to get in contact with Nintendo. It is not clear whether the game for other consoles will appear.
Dreamfall Chapters is a sequel to The Longest Journey, the game that Tørnquist at his previous employer, Funcom came up with. The point-and-click adventure game was released in 1999. In 2006 she published the sequel Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. With Dreamfall Chapters will Tørnquist connect to the events in which both predecessors. He has Funcom was granted the right to use the name of the game that he himself has devised. Whether money is involved with the license, is not known.
