Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦

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He/Him. Get over it. Exploring apocalypses. I founded and lead Hinterland, and created THE LONG DARK. Director, writer, designer, human. Proud Canadian. Just doing my best.

Mug commemorating the moon landing, July 1969. Shows the lander and lists the names of the astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
Cover for The Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake.
A glorious Barred owl, looking at me through my kitchen window.
Jake and Elwood from the Blues Brothers, standing in front of their decommissioned police car.
Ripples in water, against a snowy shoreline.
On Tuesday, a long journey comes to an end. Hinterland founded, May 2012. THE LONG DARK Kickstarter. Early Access Launch Silent Hunter Update Deep Forest Update Desolation Point Update Timberwolf Mountain Update Xbox Game Preview Launch Tireless Menace Update Penitent Scholar Update Vigilant Trespass Update Resolute Outfitter Update Faithful Cartographer Update WINTERMUTE (Story Mode) 1.0 Launch Episode One: Do Not Go Gentle Episode Two: Luminance Fugue PlayStation 4 Launch Rugged Sentinel Update Vigilant Flame Update WINTERMUTE Redux (Episodes One and Two Re-release) Steadfast Ranger Update Episode Three: Crossroads Elegy Errant Pilgrim Update Fearless Navigator Update Winter's Embrace Event Nintendo Switch Launch Hesitant Prospect Update Perilous Constraint Update Escape the Darkwalker Event Episode Four: Fury, Then Silence TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY Launch Forsaken Airfield Update Signal Void Update Frontier Comforts Update Buried Echoes Update Last Horizon Update Broken Silence Update PlayStation 5 Launch Xbox Series X/S Launch Visual Enhancements for Next Gen +100 hotfixes Episode Five: The Light at the End of All Things, March 31st, 2026. Never give up.
Various survivors huddled near a roaring fire, trying to stay warm against a raging blizzard outside.
The town of Perseverance Mills in Episode Five of THE LONG DARK. A misty scene of a wintery coastal village, wooden houses along the coastline looking moody and abandoned.
A murder of crows as seen on the beach.
A man with black-rimmed glasses wearing a black t-shirt with the words “Directed by John Carpenter”.
Text says: "Troops from the Netherlands and Canada are also expected to deploy to the territory, Politico reported."