Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey Will Be Released Episodically

<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Developer Red Thread Games have announced that their upcoming adventure game Dreamfall Chapters&colon; The Longest Journey&comma; will be released as five separate episodes instead of as a single package&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">In<&sol;span> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;redthread&sol;dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey&sol;posts&sol;890605">a post on the game&&num;8217&semi;s Kickstarter page<&sol;a>&comma; <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">creative director Ragnar Tornquist wrote that &&num;8221&semi;The creative process is unpredictable&comma; however&comma; and the story we’re telling has turned out to be bigger and more ambitious than first envisioned&period; We’re not on track to meet the release date we estimated a year and a half ago&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;ve had to take a long&comma; hard look at our schedule and budget&period;After much internal debate and careful consideration&comma; we’ve decided to return to the episodic format&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Tornquist justified the decision by saying that &&num;8221&semi;We could have made deep cuts&comma; removed a lot of the characters&comma; story-lines and locations — but we would have ended up with a different game than the one that&&num;8217&semi;s played inside our heads for the better part of a decade&comma; a different game than the one we&&num;8217&semi;ve promised our backers&&num;8221&semi;&period;&&num;8221&semi;By releasing Book One this autumn&comma; we hope to start generating income&comma; all of which will go right back into improving the quality and scope of subsequent books&period; And by dividing our work into five standalone releases&comma; we’re able to give each book the focus&comma; polish and attention it needs&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Dreamfall Chapters Book One&colon; Rebirth will launch on PC before November&period; So far no pricing details have been released&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;469716&sol;dreamfall-chapters-split-into-episodes&sol;">CVG<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;