Hello, backers!

We've just recorded a new video production update -- you can find the HD version on YouTube and the SD version below.

In this update, Martin, Dag and Ragnar talk about what's been happening with Dreamfall Chapters this past month, what the production team is working on (hint: it's a game!), and what's ahead in the near future.

We've got more video updates lined up, and next week we hope to show you our brand new offices, as we (fingers crossed) move into our permanent, long-term digs. The finishing touches are currently being put on the kitchen, where many frozen pizzas will be heated and eaten, and once that's ready we'll say goodbye to our current (cramped and packed) office and finally get some room to grow.

And grow we will! We have several job openings at Red Thread Games, and we're currently looking for skilled 3D animators, character artists, and prop/environment artists to join the team. Check out our jobs page for more information.

We've also got some great news for everyone who has backed the project and has been asking for a way to manage their pledge. We've signed a deal with Backerkit and we're rolling out a limited trial this week. If all goes well, we'll be able to invite everyone in the weeks to come, and we can start fulfilling some of the Kickstarter rewards. We'll have more on Backerkit and what this means for you guys very, very soon!

Dreamfall Chapters was recently Greenlit by the Steam community, which means that our backers will be able to get a Steam copy of the game on both PC, Mac & Linux when the time comes. Hurray! We're happy and grateful for your votes, and we're very excited about being on Steam. There are, of course, tons of games still waiting to get the Steam Greenlight, including Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller from our friends at Phoenix Online Studios, and they could certainly use your votes as well.

And speaking of good friends, please check out Among the Sleep, a brilliant first-person horror adventure from our countrymen (and women) at Krillbite Studio, currently in the middle of their very successful Kickstarter. The game is lovely and the team needs another $88,000 in the next 18 days to reach their goal. Please help them out -- they're good peoples, they need your support, and you get a bloody fantastic game in return! 

Thanks for your patience, everyone, and please stay tuned for more!

Sincerely,

Red Thread Games

Hello, backers!

It has, unfortunately, been a while since our last update -- mostly because the whole team's been busy preparing for (and attending, and recovering from) the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in lovely San Francisco.

We had a fantastic show this year. We met with a lot of people, including old friends & partners, business contacts, press, fans & backers; we participated in a live TwitchTV stream, hosted by Evolve, where we showed off some early prototype gameplay (and a talking robot); we did a bunch of interviews, had a bunch of wonderful dinners with friends & colleagues, and went to a bunch of fun parties.

GDC is a great place to meet and connect with everyone in the industry, and it also gives us the opportunity to sit down and discuss game design and development with passionate and skilled professionals. Lots of new ideas and inspiration came out of this, and we'll have more on that in future updates!

Reward fulfilment update

We've gotten a lot of questions about when we're going to send out the surveys and start shipping T-shirts, forum badges, desktop backgrounds and digital copies of The Longest Journey to those of you who added that to our pledges.

Since Kickstarter only supports a single survey, we're currently working very hard to find a solution that allows us to send out multiple surveys, and also allows our backers to update their personal information and even increase their pledges -- upping their reward level, for example, or adding additional rewards.

We are close to finding a solution, and as soon as we can implement it, we will be able to distribute the first batch of rewards. These include:

• Digital copies of The Longest Journey
• T-shirts, which are still on track to ship within the original estimates, and
• forum badges, which we're working on!

Desktop backgrounds are a bit further out, but we'll have the first batch ready far in advance of our original estimate, "before the end of 2013". And they will be awesome.

Upcoming events

Members of the Red Thread Games team are attending -- and speaking at -- several events and conferences in the near future, including Unite Nordic and Rezzed. Topics & exact times for our talks are still to be decided, but once we know more, we will update everyone.

We hope to show off brand new in-game footage of the game at both of these events, and, if all goes well, we will of course share this footage with all of our backers in a future update.

Ragnar Tørnquist will also be speaking at the Digital Dragons Game Festival in Krakow, Poland, on April 20th. The topic will be Dreamfall Chapters and our Kickstarter.

We hope to see you at one of these events! And if you are there, and you spot us, please don't hesitate to come up & say hello!

Future updates

We are planning on sending out frequent, weekly or bi-weekly updates (depending on what's happening with the game) in the months (and year-and-a-half) ahead, and we will also be doing more video updates going forward. Next week we hope to have something visual for you guys to take a look at, and also more information on the surveys and rewards.

For those of you who have yet to join our vibrant and friendly community over on the official forum, you're more than welcome to register and take part in the discussions! The developers are posting on a daily basis, and if you have any questions & concerns, theories & ideas, or if you just want to chat with fellow fans, backers and members of the Red Thread Games team, this is the place to be.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your patience!

Red Thread Games

The official Dreamfall Chapters forum is finally live!

Click & bookmark the following link

www.theundreaming.com

to register and get started.

Your Kickstarter forum badges aren't quite ready yet, and we're still working on a technical solution for linking your forum account to your pledge level. Once that's ready, you'll be able to switch out your avatar for any badge at or below your pledge level.

The whole development team will be active on the forums, and we're going to be as accessible, informative and communicative as possible throughout the production of Dreamfall Chapters. So go grab your username, say hello, and become part of our warm, friendly, smart and supportive community!

And speaking of the development team, we've posted a few thank-yous from team members over on our website. Go check it out!

Hi all,

After the end of the Kickstarter campaign, we still have a few limited edition boxes (and USB keys) left, and we're now offering those through PayPal -- but only until we run out. We're not making any more; that's why they're called 'limited editions'! So if you (or anyone you know) wants one, spread the word and go grab 'em while they're still there.

We will continue to offer the digital editions through PayPal for a while longer, along with the non-limited edition boxes. We will also be selling T-shirts on our website very soon, and we'll send out an update when we do.

A lot of you have been asking for a way to increase your Kickstarter pledges and get a higher tier reward, and we're looking into it right now. Hopefully we'll have something in place within a couple of days.

We're currently working our way through all the practicalities around sending out surveys, getting everyone forum badges, and simply figuring out the road ahead -- thank you for your patience, and we'll get in touch with everyone soon!

Last but not least, we've finally announced the nominees for our Dreamfall Chapters fan art competition! We couldn't pick just three, however, so instead we've made a bunch of categories and listed all of our favourites within each category. Hop on over to our official website to vote for YOUR favourites.

Thanks again, everyone, and we'll be back with more later this week!

RTG

$1,538,425

That's what all 21,858 of you have generously contributed to the production of Dreamfall Chapters. One-point-five MILLION dollars. Just...wow. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. We are grateful and humbled, inspired by your support and belief in this project and in us.

Now it's our turn to deliver.

This is the last of the Kickstarter updates. This is the first of the post-Kickstarter updates.

We're going to keep you updated on what's going on with Dreamfall Chapters, what we're working on, how we're spending your money. We'll keep you informed, entertained, amused and involved. Every step of the way.

There won't be daily updates, of course, but we'll post something as often as possible, as often as we have something to talk about or show. Expect text updates, video diaries, new art, screenshots, character concepts, voice samples. Expect music, behind-the-scenes photos, outtakes and anecdotes. Expect some surprises along the way.

This is not just our game now. It's yours, too. And we're going to share it with you, the best we can. Oh, there will be mysteries because mysteries are still important. But we asked you to join us on this journey, and we're staying true to our word.

This is a journey we take together.

So what's going to happen now?

Well, we're going to answer any questions you guys may have. We're going to take care of the practicalities. We're going to launch a forum and give you guys your badges. We're going to move everyone over there, and build a strong, vocal, friendly, creative and supportive community. A community we can all be proud of, where we can be honest and open, inclusive and gracious. The development team will be active and communicative, and you'll get to interact with absolutely everyone. You'll get to know them personally.

And we're going to build a great game.

Tomorrow we will be back with some more practical information, particularly in regards to PayPal. We'll also provide an update about the fan art competition. And we'll share some words from the rest of the team, some of whom you may not have heard from yet.

But until then, let's celebrate the fact that Dreamfall Chapters is now a thing that will happen! It's actually really, really real. And not only do we get to make a game; we get to make the Director's Cut of this game.

That makes me very, very happy.

So thank you all again. For being so damn great. For helping us run a damn fine Kickstarter. For being the friendliest and most engaging bunch of fans and pledgers we could have hoped for. I've enjoyed this experience so much, and I can't wait to get started on the rest of it.

We've said it a hundred times already, but what the hell -- we're not done quite yet:

Onwards & upwards, gang!

Ragnar