![]() ![]() Some of these proposed games were peripheral to the main saga, but most continued the story of the twin worlds and of the Balance. While I'm not going to reveal my ideas for that game - it could spoil future stories set in the same universe - I soon realised that we needed a more conventional story leading up to the future events hinted at in TLJ.ĭuring the next couple of years, while working on a number of online games(1), I would write several proposals for a sequel, including a massively multiplayer online role-playing adventure titled The War of the Balance(2) (I even blogged briefly about that one back in 2002). (Or, perhaps more likely, 90/10: I think a lot of die hard TLJ fans would have been quite upset.) It also had some twists and turns that, if they'd come about prior to Dreamfall, would probably have caused a big controversy, and would certainly have split opinions firmly down the middle. Unification featured a 16-year old Asian-American protagonist named Mica who went on a search to find her missing boyfriend, and a large corporation manufacturing a powerful and mysterious device linked to dreams. Conceived in mid-2001, code-named Unification - and then, later, Static//The Longest Journey - this was the meta-story taken to its (il)logical extreme: a story about a story about stories and dreams and the power of imagination. Someone recently reminded me that both Dreamfall and The Longest Journey are stories about stories, and that was definitely the genesis of the first TLJ 2. Not surprisingly, a lot of what was written back in those days made it into Dreamfall - and a lot of it didn't. ![]() While I didn't want to jump right into a sequel - certainly not a sequel starring April Ryan on a quest to save the Balance - and while most of the TLJ team was immediately devoured and chewed up by the then-growing and insatiable Anarchy Online machine, I wanted to get my ideas for the continuation of the story down on paper before they had faded from memory. Ragnar Tørnquist: "Dreamfallen part (ii), in which I talk about the long(est) journey from idea to realityĭespite repeated denials by yours truly over the years, the sequel to The Longest Journey began life soon after the first game was released. I've also uploaded the track that plays in the Hospital Room, because it's beautiful. ![]() Four of their songs are featured in the game, and I've uploaded them for you. Not included on the soundtrack however, are the songs by the band "Magnet". Dreamfall has a spectacular Soundtrack, most of which is easy to obtain. ![]()
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