The Longest Journey
| The Longest Journey | |||
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| Original title | Travel the longest | ||
| Studio | Funcom | ||
| Publisher |
 IQ Media Shoebox
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| Senior Developer | Ragnar Tornquist | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1999 March 20, 2000 April 20, 2000 November 16, 2000 December 15, 2000   |
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| platform | Windows , iOS | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard & mouse | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
166 MHz CPU, 32 MB RAM, 640 × 480 SVGA graphics card with 2 MB RAM, 300 MB hard disk | ||
| medium | CD-ROM , DVD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English | ||
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The Longest Journey is an adventure game by the Norwegian game designer Ragnar Tørnquist . It was developed by the studio and publisher Funcom and appeared in Norway in 1999 and in other countries such as Germany , Great Britain and the USA the following year .
action
In the world of the year 2209 the player slips into the role of the young April Ryan. She has just moved to Newport, a (fictional) city on the west coast of North America, to begin studying art there. In the preparation time for April's entrance exam, events come thick and fast when it turns out that her dreams and her perception of reality threaten to merge. Experiences from the dream world manifest themselves in reality with increasing frequency and scope and make waves in April's environment. Guided by the eccentric-looking, aging Latino Cortez, April learns about the cause of the fluctuations, embarks on a journey through worlds believed to be forgotten and slowly becomes aware of her own personality and her role in the cosmos.
Gameplay
In The Longest Journey is a classic point-and-click adventure game that is played completely with the mouse. The interaction possibilities are reduced to three verbs for viewing, speaking and using, whereby often only one action is possible, which is then carried out automatically.
technology
In contrast to other adventure games, which were mainly created in the 1990s, the characters and locations in The Longest Journey were not depicted as comic characters, but as naturalistic render characters, which, however, were still subject to certain technical restrictions. The game characters act as 3D objects in front of sparingly animated, rendered 3D backgrounds with fixed camera positions. Comparable contemporary games of this type, such as Grim Fandango or Escape from Monkey Island , had, although they use a similar technology, a pure keyboard or joypad control.
The game was released for Windows . Originally the operating system versions Windows 95, 98 and ME were supported, unofficially also Windows NT, 2000 and XP. With the upcoming release of Dreamfall , a "Special Edition" was released, which officially supports Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP and is delivered as DVD-ROM.
synchronization
The dubbing voices are u. a. from:
- Stephanie Kindermann : April Ryan
- Horst Stark : Cortez, policeman, space station guard
- Robert Missler : crow, young banda, male spirit
- Martin Heckmann : Tobias, castle guard of the Alatier
- Sascha Draeger : Charlie, prisoner Banda
- Kerstin Draeger : Fiona
- Rainer Schmitt : Captain Nebevay, ticket dealer, Grendel Avenue policeman
- Eric Schäffler : Burns Flipper, Alatier Guard
- Peter Weis : Abnaxus, Banda elder
- Gabi Libbach : white dragon, Tun Luiec
- Till Demtröder : Zack Lee, porter of the innovators, shell player, the guardian
- Douglas Welbat : Freddie Melon, Envoy of the Dark People, Frank Minnelli
- Achim Schülke : Roper Klacks, Minstrum Yerin, Wick
- Joachim Kerzel : Brian Westhouse, Q'aman
- Nico König : Gordon, thin service technician
- Marion von Stengel : FACT voice, female guest
- Sylvie Nogler : Colonial seller, young Alatier
- Sabine Falkenberg : Mickey, reporter
- Holger Mahlich : Father Raul, agent of innovators
- Katja Brügger : landlady, policewoman on watch
- Eckhard Dux : Willow, Woody
- Verena Wiet : Old woman, old woman
- Ben Hecker : Forest Spirit
- Ingeborg Kallweit : Ancient Dragon
- Heidi Schaffrath : Queen of the Maerum
- Marion Elskis : Emma
- K.-P. Kaehler : Fat service technician
- Ruben Weichler : Alatier child
- Marc Degener : Lorhan
- Dietmar Mues : Jacob McAllen
- Hans Paetsch : Old Alatier
- Klaus Dittmann : Stanley
- Carola Lentzer : April's mother
- Michaela Kreissler : Gribbler
- Wolfgang Kaven : April's father
- Gerhard Garbers : Umber Lanos, actor-police officer
- Henry König : Elevator Policeman
- Leonhard Mahlich : Warren
- Thomas Weichler : Marcus
- Sven Bluhm : Watch
successor
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
The Adventure Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is the successor to The Longest Journey and, unlike its predecessor, contains, among other things, some action elements. It was developed by the Norwegian company Funcom for Xbox and Windows . The game was released on April 17, 2006 in the USA , the dubbed German version was released on May 26, 2006 via the German publisher dtp entertainment and its publishing label Anaconda.
Dreamfall Chapters
The computer game Dreamfall Chapters is the successor to Dreamfall . It appeared between October 2014 and June 2016 in five episodes, the so-called books , which were published every few months.
Dreamfall Chapters marks the end of the Dreamer cycle , a series that began with Dreamfall . Further sequels to the overarching The Longest Journey series are not excluded.
literature
- Holger Pinnow, Olaf Pinnow: The Longest Journey . Prima Games, Roseville 2000, ISBN 3-934783-10-4 .
Web links
- The Longest Journey Wiki (English)
- The Longest Journey - Official Website (English)
- The Longest Journey at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Red Thread Games: Dreamfall Chapters ( Memento from October 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ↑ Ragnar Tørnquist on Reddit AMA . Retrieved September 18, 2019.