The Dreamfall:Chapters kickstater is now live!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey

Yeah, bring it on! For me, it's the most anticipated project on Kickstarter ever and I'm seriously considering higher pledges.

I saw the news at PCGamer.com and read the Kickstarter page. I'm seriously considering in backing it up. I just need to convince Fred, the scorpion I have in my wallet...

Just give them your money RIGHT NOW...:)

Thank you for sharing this. Definitely supporting.

ALL MY MONIES, TAKE EM! :D

I won a contest here on GoG a long time ago and a friend suggested I get The Longest Journey as my prize.
I'm glad he did cause I loved that game and instantly went on to play Dreamfall.

So to finally see Dreamfall Chapters being made is a dream come true.
Currently have myself backed at the $75 digital tier, but I might up that if they have some interesting stretch goals and the likes.

Here's a reddit ask me anything session to ask questions and read answers from Ragnar Tørnquist:

http://redd.it/189al6

Wow, not even a day into the Kickstarter and already both $10 000 pledges have been filled. Holy crap people like their TLJ/Dreamfall. Not that I blame them ;)

I hope they get enough funding to extend the length of the game. In his AMA Ragnar Tørnquist mentioned that it's currently gonna be 10+ hours long, but fans have already said they want a longer game and I agree, a 10+ hour game doesn't do this series justice, I'd love for it to be 20-30 hours long if possible.

Also we'll probably see this hit GoG if the attached image is anything to go by :P (I freaked when I got the notification on my phone :p)

Just so long as they deliver a game that ties up all the dangling plot threads from Dreamfall and make us less bitter about that cliffhanger ending. Personally, I'm just glad that they scrapped that episodic nonsense; they already hit us with one cliffhanger, the last thing they need is an opportunity to pull a Valve and fall behind on releasing episodes that could have just as easily been compiled into a single game.

Based on the AMA, major plotlines will be resolved as this game will conclude Zoë's story from Dreamfall, but there might be tiny cliffhangers as they're not done with the sage itself, so I'm hopeful :)

Oh good grief... Look, I'm glad they are making a sequel and all, but these people already pulled the whole sequel-baiting stunt in dreamfall, a sequel to a game that was older than the hills in internet years and banked on fan loyalty resulting in them getting the funds to do a sequel, and we all know how that turned out. Now, they are doing the same thing over again, seemingly forgetting that the last time they tried to deliver a deliberately incomplete sequel to a (relatively) ancient game, it wound up backfiring in their face. Maybe kickstarter patrons will be more forgiving of this and give them a second chance if TLJ 4 ever gets pitched, but I've had enough; it's bad enough that the developers seem to be pulling a Robert Jordan by extending the series for no discernible reason, but failure on their part could easily result in the series being incomplete forever.

Hell, at least Wheel of Time got finished because a guy saw some money potential in taking up Jordan's mantle, but the danger here is that fans will be so pissed and resultingly distance themselves from the game (however correct a response this might be remains to be seen) that no sane software developer would take on the project. Bottom line, unless you are operating under a videogame production schedule equivalent to the Lord of the Rings movies, sequel-baiting, particularly for this series, is unwise.

Don't forget to add your vote for Dreamfall Chapters on the GOG Community Wishlist. A few weeks before the Kickstarter went live, Ragnar Tørnquist tweeted about his desire to eventually get the game on here. He basically asked people to start adding their vote to the list, and I don't see how it can hurt :)

Be looking for expanded/extended goals once the game gets funded. (Kickstarter is currently at $773,413 with 23 days to go.) Tørnquist has said over twitter that he would like to see the game become available for both Mac and Linux so I expect those will be on the goals list somewhere.

Stretch Goals just hit the kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/406579

I really hope it can reach that $2M mark since The Longest Journey Home intrigues me.
The $1M goal should easily be doable and will extend the game which is absolutely a great thing!