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Hello, readers! I’m Luc Baghadoust, Executive Producer of Don’t Nod Montréal’s newly announced narrative adventure game, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. I’m here to talk a bit about the game, our studio, and the teams involved in bringing this new story to life. We are thrilled to finally reveal at tonight’s The Game Awards what we’ve been working on and are so proud of: a new game and a new series!
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage began after Michel Koch (Creative Director) and I worked on Life is Strange 1 and 2, when we got the opportunity to kickstart a new adventure for Don’t Nod: forming a new studio in Montréal. Expanding overseas had been a discussion for a while and with strong support from Don’t Nod Paris, we made the leap. Michel and I both already loved North America, and the industry is vibrant here, with so many exciting studios and talents.
A global pandemic was not something that we anticipated, obviously, and it was a challenge to set everything up. Luckily, Don’t Nod adopted a remote work policy company-wide, which enabled us to collaborate remotely. Creating a new team was a fascinating experience. Along with Don’t Nod Montréal’s Managing Director, Frédérique Fourny-Jennings, we are shaping the studio’s vision and its projects. We were lucky to be able to bring Don’t Nod’s uniqueness and values to the Montréal scene.
We brought with us key people who had been working on previous Life is Strange games such as Baptiste Moisan, our Lead Designer, and Juliette Devillers, our Lead Character Artist, amongst others. We’ve also been able to attract fantastic talent to the Montréal Studio, a lot of whom had been impacted by those games and wanted to help us tell our new story. So a big thank you to the team in Montréal and each new talent that has joined us and helped make all the pieces click together.
Jean-Luc Cano, who wrote the scripts for Life is Strange 1 and 2, and his team of amazing writers collaborated closely with Michel in developing the story and characters of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. We firmly believe that the best characters deliver the best stories, and we think you’ll all love Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat: four high school friends that form bonds over the course of a once-in-a-lifetime summer. Fate sees them reunite 27 years later after promising to never speak again. It’s a reflective tale with friendship, emotion, mystery, and magical surrealism.
Now about Lost Records! Bloom & Rage is the first game in the Lost Records universe. We obviously wanted to continue creating narrative adventure games with a strong focus on characters that resonate with people. Bloom & Rage shares a lot of DNA with our previous games, but also innovates in some areas too. Making a universe and having the stories within it interconnect with each other is something we’ve been dreaming of. The possibilities are endless and the stories we can tell within this universe are huge. Don’t Nod Montréal is hard at work making sure we bring these ideas and games to life!
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is scheduled for release in late 2024 but if you want to keep up with news and updates, follow Lost Records on X, Instagram, and TikTok. There’s definitely more to come that we can’t wait to show you.
Hello and welcome to Lost Records Fans!
This webapp has been in the making since Lost Records: Bloom & Rage was first revealed at The Game Awards on December 8th, 2023!
Its creation coincided with my interest in learning React development. React is a JavaScript library originally created at Facebook and now used by some of the largest companies in the world. It allows fast interactive experiences that 'react' immediately without page refreshes. Think of Liking anything on Facebook and seeing the number of Likes update immediately. It is primarily a frontend library, meaning the UI users see and interact with. NextJS is a framework for React that allows server-side rendering, mixing both frontend and backend disciplines in one system.
I also created Life Is Strange Fans over 10 years ago. That site is built on Wordpress, and while it has many custom features, Wordpress is really not the ideal platform for such a community-driven site. I do plan to relaunch Life Is Strange Fans as a webapp very similar to Lost Records Fans eventually, but for now, Lost Records Fans is my main project. It represents everything I would want in a community app, with exciting features like an interactive Sticker Album and realtime Notifications.
I am a sole developer, and so it did take me longer to finish that I would have liked, but the Fans have been incredibly patient and I'm so happy to finally welcome everyone in!
Here are some ideas for the first things you could do now that you're part of this community:
And to celebrate the launch, we're running a Launch Giveaway, with awesome prizes including the Lost Records Soundtrack Vinyl from Kid Katana Records and branded fanny packs from Don't Nod themselves!
Head here to enter now!
Thanks once again to everyone for putting up with all the delays. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Comments below.
See you in hell! Or... you know, around the site 😀
PS: If you're a Don't Nod dev that's happened to join the site, let us know so we can give you your special Don't Nod role and Badge!
Rewind back to the 90s and live the defining summer of four high school girls as they forge bonds through their growing friendship, their punk band, and an unexplained event that will forever change their lives.
Experience the story in two thrilling parts, both included!
Navigate between the dual timelines of 1995 and 2022 and shape both narratives, with each offering a piece of the larger puzzle: the life-changing secrets they uncovered as teens and who – or what – has brought them back together. Reunited, they must piece together what was real, what really happened back then, and what lies festering under the surface of Velvet Cove…
Connect with your newfound sisterhood through lifelike interactions and conversations that feel real: engage in immersive dialogue that changes based on where you look and what you say; where you can do things like interrupt and ignore. Grab your camcorder and explore, filming Velvet Cove and capturing the essence of its people, places, and lush nature. Film just for the fun of it or try to find the dark secrets tucked away.
Play as Swann and get to know your new friends, each with their own lives and battles. Come out of your shell and embrace rebellion over the summer as you form friendships with Nora, Autumn, and Kat. Through your actions and words, you’ll shape your relationships with each of them on your journey to self-discovery. Will your bond wither over the years or will it feel like you were barely separated at all?
In a picturesque corner of Michigan in 1995 lies the seemingly sleepy little town of Velvet Cove. Between dense woodlands and serene lakes, it’s a place where beauty meets the bizarre. Cloaked in a carefully crafted dreampop soundtrack that blends nostalgia and ethereal vibes, you’ll definitely find it all nice and relaxing…
We’ve partnered with Maximum Entertainment to bring you a super cool physical edition which includes:
Swann
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