Northbound: Long Road Ahead

Northbound: Long Road Ahead

released on Apr 18, 2019

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Northbound: Long Road Ahead

released on Apr 18, 2019

Northbound is a narrative, atmospheric adventure game set on a roadtrip. Features Colorful, atmospheric handcrafted graphics A highly detailed bus to explore Soundtrack featuring various indie artists An amount of dialogue we've never bothered to count Will last you anywhere between 20 to 45 minutes No objectives to fulfill, so take your time Background Development started back in February of 2018 as part of our final thesis at university, where the two of us developed it for five months until we graduated in June. Since then, it has received pretty positive reactions, encouraging us to start development of an all new version of Northbound. This is not that new version. In fact, this version, now dubbed 'Long Road Ahead', is pretty much exactly the one we graduated with. We are uploading it here in order to clear our heads, re-process our development and design processes that led us to this version, and to gather feedback. We hope that all of this will help us with development of the new version of Northbound, so please let us know if you liked it. If you are interested, please follow us on Twitter for updates on the current state of development.


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While A Long Goodbye was a quick talk through memory lane, this game similarly focused on people you shared time with is a stretched out to make the tension between the characters to feel more akward, and as such it brings a more cynical approach. The protagonist wanted this trip to feel he could fit in somewhere again with his former friends after university left him feeling alone... But the lake they spent time together in is now filled with a store in it, just like how their busy lives ended up burying all their connections and how they can't go back expecting it to be as charming as they once thought it was.