Spirit of the North is heading to Steam on the 7th May!

To celebrate, the developers are streaming the game over on the game's Steam Page!



Don't forget to add Spirit of the North to your wishlist.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213700/Spirit_of_the_North/?beta=0

The best time to grab The Long Reach and get lost in Christmas nightmares. Be sure to review the game after playing, ho-ho-ho.

Yeah, as simple as that. The Long Reach is on the Steam Autumn Sale with 80% discount. That's it.
Nothing to add.

Grab a copy.

Just do it.

Or do not *Yoda smile.*

Finally! Without further ado, pre-order for Xbox One while it's 15% off! Limited time only.

Hey everyone! A friendly reminder - just a few days left on the big Steam Summer Sale! Grab The Long Reach while it's 60% off!

TheLongReach is 60% off in the Steam Summer Sale. Grab the game for PC, Mac or Linux!

Been totally snowed under with work on the new super-patch for The Long Reach, missed you, guys!

'It's my fucking cup Stan!'


Don't be like Stan.

• Be nice.
  
• Eat oatmeal every morning before saving humanity.
  
• Have a nice day.
  
• And for God’s sake, get yourself a new fucking cup.
  

Yay! The Long Reach limited Signature Edition copies for PS4 are successfully distributed to our players! Thanks, Tj Marinelli for the photo. Hope you enjoy!

PS, you can still get yourself one here

Enjoy an oddly satisfying video of two hands are UNBOXING The Long Reach! ːsteamhappyː
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHxGxHLSps
Includes:
• Region Free PlayStation4 The Long Reach game
• Official The Long Reach Soundtrack CD
• The Long Reach "Development Manual & Project Introduction" booklet
• An Outer Box With Developer's Signatures

You can order The Long Reach Signature Edition for PS4 here

[quote=TodasGamers] Un juego que combine terror y angustia con thriller psicolgico en un mundo de pixel art (a game that combines terror and anguish with a psychological thriller in a world of pixelart).[/quote]
https://todasgamers.com/2018/04/05/el-largo-camino-a-casa-resena-de-the-long-reach/

[quote=TodasGamers] Un juego que combine terror y angustia con thriller psicológico en un mundo de pixel art (a game that combines terror and anguish with a psychological thriller in a world of pixelart).[/quote]
https://todasgamers.com/2018/04/05/el-largo-camino-a-casa-resena-de-the-long-reach/

We love the work on lights and particles performed by our producer and developer Roman Tomilin in The Long Reach! Check it out!

We love the work on lights and particles performed by our producer and developer Roman Tomilin in The Long Reach! Check it out!

Riverwind77 painted folks streamers inspired by the art style of The Long Reach


[quote=Riverwind77] Hi everyone! I recently played and tested this incredible game and fell in love with the beautiful pixel art, i would like to share with you this piece of artwork i made last week.[/quote]
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1347187017
Thank you, man! Amazing work!

Riverwind77 painted folks streamers inspired by the art style of The Long Reach


[quote=Riverwind77] Hi everyone! I recently played and tested this incredible game and fell in love with the beautiful pixel art, i would like to share with you this piece of artwork i made last week.[/quote]
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1347187017
Thank you, man! Amazing work!

Hi everybody!


Thanks for all of the input recently on The Long Reach.
Weve been working hard with the developers to try and push out as many fixes for the game as possible.

Heres a changelog of some of the more notable ones:

• fixed an incorrect behaviour with 'Jack' (including doubling, falling from ceiling, invisibility)
  
• fixed impossibility of discovering hidden achievements
  
• fixed game crash after interacting with some objects
  
• fixed impossibility of moving after the game restart, if the player died while interacting with objects
  
• fixed empty dialog issue in underground facility
  
• fixed error with Maxwells behaviour (disappearing, invisibility, etc)
  
• fixed scene boundaries issue at the underground facility which led to character disappearing
  
• increased time of saving indicator view
  
• possibility of dying instantly after reloading of save is prevented
  
• ...and a huge amount of small bug fixes

Hi everybody!


Thanks for all of the input recently on The Long Reach.
We’ve been working hard with the developers to try and push out as many fixes for the game as possible.

Here’s a changelog of some of the more notable ones:

• fixed an incorrect behaviour with 'Jack' (including doubling, falling from ceiling, invisibility)
  
• fixed impossibility of discovering hidden achievements
  
• fixed game crash after interacting with some objects
  
• fixed impossibility of moving after the game restart, if the player died while interacting with objects
  
• fixed “empty dialog” issue in underground facility
  
• fixed error with Maxwell’s behaviour (disappearing, invisibility, etc)
  
• fixed scene boundaries issue at the underground facility which led to character disappearing
  
• increased time of saving indicator view
  
• possibility of dying instantly after reloading of save is prevented
  
• ...and a huge amount of small bug fixes

It's been some days since the release of The Long Reach, and the bugs have been appearing. Since we have all your support and help (seriously, cooperation is AMAZING) we'are able to fix these gross bumps as soon as possible and make our very first patch.

We've made the official thread for filling it with all bugs info that you found. Don't let this basket get empty: http://steamcommunity.com/app/584990/discussions/0/2949168687317581259/

It's been some days since the release of The Long Reach, and the bugs have been appearing. Since we have all your support and help (seriously, cooperation is AMAZING) we'are able to fix these gross bumps as soon as possible and make our very first patch.

We've made the official thread for filling it with all bugs info that you found. Don't let this basket get empty: http://steamcommunity.com/app/584990/discussions/0/2949168687317581259/

The Long Reach is out now! Hope you enjoy the game!

Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we added a demo for The Long Reach, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

So cool thing about it is that saves will carry over to the full game too. :)

We hope you enjoy the game!

We've released a demo for The Long Reach! Available for Windows, Mac and Linux systems, this small snippet of the game will give you a flavour of what's to come... If you play the demo, you can carry over your save data should you go on and buy the full game.

We hope you enjoy it.

Hi, I’m Roman Tomilin, the coder and producer of The Long Reach, the upcoming puzzle horror adventure that releases next week, 14th March.

The Long Reach is a brutal 2D side-scroller set in a research facility the experiment of which has went haywire; your worst nightmares no longer haunt your dreams but prowl the institute’s corridors while you’re awake.

Eventually, after the developing of the game, we wanted to showcase just some of those moments in the below video which hopefully offers some interesting insights behind the scenes of game development.

https://youtu.be/FhE9RIV841s
But as we also near release – only a week away! – I wanted to reflect (and share) some of the development secrets and insights about the team at Painted Black Games.

• The Long Reach started as a completely different game. It was another story, an alternative setting, and a separate character. But we realized early on in development that our small team lacked the technical resources to implement the idea. We dropped the lot and started again. We still believe the original story was pretty cool – Maybe we’ll return to it sometime.
  
• Initially, the game had two parts – a 2D, side-on section for quests and a top-down view for a stealth mode. We removed the latter because we were unable to link both conceptions and art styles harmoniously. Early playtests showed that the combination frustrated players rather than delight them.
  

• Our development team isn’t centralised; we’re spread out over the country. While this has its perks (home comforts!) we’ve had to make sure we’re in constant contact and arrange regular sessions face to face. (Who knew brainstorming works best in person?) Yeah, independent game development can present difficulties, but on the other hand, there are lots of benefits. You can always count on the support of the gaming community. Moreover, when you are an IndieDev many game conferences are open to you, so you can show your game and collect invaluable feedback at every stage of development. This has helped us shape The Long Reach for the better.
  
• Ukraine is cold and Roman is seldom seen outside without his trademark red beanie.
  

• The appearance of one of the game characters (one that you’re going to take your time with) is based on one of the development team. (Can you guess who? Watch the video closely to find out!) We don’t take ownership of ‘one’ role in the studio. We were task-oriented during development, dividing up the work as fitted best at any given stage during development. As a result, we’ve found we’re a versatile bunch.
  
• Our composer Ruslan is, in fact, a cat. Of course, he has his own human to serve him in his everyday routine and creative process.
  
• True story: the main storyline for the game was the result of a chance meeting between Roman and Evgeni at Casual Connect in Amsterdam. Written on the back of a beer mat, it managed to survive the night and was rediscovered in the morning when sobriety was regained.
  

Podcast Link
[quote=Indie Gaming Podcast] This week I have picked what I believe will be the best 5 indie games coming out in the month of March on the PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and even the Mac!

Check out The mentioned games
Agony
Q.U.B.E. 2
The Long Reach
Warhammer Vermintide 2
Lihghtfall[/quote]

The Long Reach was honourable mentioned in Top 5 video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sws8x60rJGU

The Long Reach in Top 7 Most Anticipated Indie Games of March 2018!
Check out the Top
[quote=James Sheppard] March is here, bringing the spring and everything that entails, from blossoming flowers and fluffy little lambs to a bit of much-needed warmth and sunshine (we hope). But forget about all of that nonsense happening outside of your window for a minute, because March also has some cracking indie games in store for us. Here are the seven indie games we’re most looking forward to this month.[/quote]
Just friendly reminder: The Long Reach is going to be released on March 14th, 2018!

Hey guys! How are you? The Long Reach release day is less than a month away. The adventure starts here on March 14, 2018!

Let's stick to the point. We FINALLY have a solid release date: March 14, 2018!

Price: €14.99, £12.99.

Additionally: we're so excited, so excited, so excited, so excited, so excited!

Happy New Year to you and your families! You're a hell of a rockstar! Stay tuned, stand with us!

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Hi, folks! Roman here. I wanted to keep you up to speed with our launch plans for our firstborn - The Long Reach.
Initially, we had planned to release the game on PC only, aiming for a December release. A number of factors have been leading us to move the date to Q1 2018. During the extensive playtesting, we decided to alter the end of the game. We’ve also encountered translation issues and, finally, we’re moving onto console too. We’d like to launch everything at the same time and this means the slight delay.
We expect to be able to announce a firm release date at the start of January. Until then please accept my apologies for the delay and may I take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for the holidays and new year.

Sincerely yours,
Roman and Painted Black Games band.

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

#screenshotsaturday


Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Messing a bit with one of the last scenes :)


Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

"It feels like I'm near to release my first game. Good time to watch some GDC talks

Exactly two years ago, there was that chilly fall day in Dnipro when we came up with the name of the game!



The name was crystallized from the key idea of the game. "We're spinning a yarn about fiction technology that allows delivering knowledge from one head to another. So you don't need to be plugged with the wires - system finds you wherever you are. In short, it reaches you", - our producer Roman said.



Eventually, we brought our brand-new name to logo designer and artist Arvydas Brazdeikis, our remarkable friend who helped us a lot. So he took it and converted into Morse alphabet. Of course, to make it look better, we had to sacrifice factuality and drop some dots.

Finally, here are some other options for the game's name. Don't you want to take a look?:)



Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

What do you think?


Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Friday? Weekend? Naah, never heard of it.

The Long Reach is our debut, and we want you to play the best game we can make. So we postpone the release a bit and polish the game more.



Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

We think it looks awesome, don't you?


Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

PS: yeah, we know that our T-Shirts are awesome, so, we'll prepare some for you ;)

PPS: and just so you don't forget how beautiful they are ;))



Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Thanks to Mithical Entertainment team we have a great review and playing video from PAX West 2017 convention!


http://mithicalentertainment.com/pax-west-spotlight-long-reach/

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page
  

Links:

• official website
  
• official Facebook page
  
• official Twitter page