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Jane Jensen
Jane Jensen (born Jane Elizabeth Smith; January 28, 1963 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania) is an American video game designer and author. She is mostly known as the creator of the ''Gabriel Knight'' series of adventure games, and also co-founded Oberon Media and Pinkerton Road video game development companies. Jensen also writes under the name Eli Easton. Early life Jane Jensen was born Jane Elizabeth Smith, the youngest of seven children. She received a BA in computer science from Anderson University in Indiana and worked as a systems programmer for Hewlett-Packard. Career Her love of both computers and creative writing eventually led her to the computer gaming industry and Sierra OnLine where she worked as a writer on '' Police Quest III: The Kindred'' and '' EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus''. After co-designing '' King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'' with veteran game designer Roberta Williams, Jensen designed her first solo game: '' Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
''King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'' is a point-and-click adventure game, first released in 1992 as the sixth installment in the ''King's Quest'' series produced by Sierra On-Line. Written by Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, ''King's Quest VI'' is widely recognized as the high point in the series for its landmark 3D graphic introduction movie (created by Kronos Digital Entertainment) and professional voice acting (Hollywood actor Robby Benson provided the voice for Prince Alexander, the game's protagonist). ''King's Quest VI'' was programmed in Sierra's Creative Interpreter and was the last ''King's Quest'' game to be released on floppy disk. A CD-ROM version of the game was released in 1993, including more character voices, a slightly different opening movie and more detailed artwork and animation. The name of this sequel is a pun on the common phrase "here today, gone tomorrow". This pun is related to the abrupt departure of Prince Alexander after the events of ''King' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizarbox
Wizarbox was a video game developer based in Sèvres, France, southwest of Paris. They are notable for their graphic adventure games developed by industry veterans, such as the '' So Blonde'' series by Steve Ince (lead designer of '' Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon'') and ''Gray Matter'' by Jane Jensen (lead designer of the ''Gabriel Knight'' series). The company declared bankruptcy in December 2012 and was placed in receivership by a French court. Interaction-Games later acquired Wizarbox. Background Wizarbox had been porting video games by other companies to consoles since 2002's ''Arx Fatalis''. In 2007, they released their first in-house developed video game, '' So Blonde'', written and designed by industry veteran Steve Ince. The success of ''So Blonde'' led to the development of '' So Blonde: Back to the Island'', an alternate reality scenario set during the events of the original game, and the spin-off '' Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle''. After the troubled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Matter (video Game)
''Gray Matter'' is a point-and-click adventure game designed by Jane Jensen, creator of the Sierra Entertainment ''Gabriel Knight'' series. The game was developed by Wizarbox and published by DTP Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. It was released in November 2010 in Continental Europe and in English-speaking territories in 2011. The game takes place in Oxford and, to a lesser extent, in London. It follows the story of Samantha Everett, a street performer and magician, and Professor David Styles, an acclaimed and mysterious neurobiologist. Gameplay The game is played entirely with the mouse in the case of the PC version (point-and-click). The cursor is contextual, meaning that it will change automatically to actions such as "Talk to...", "Pick up...", and so on, depending on the object (and state of the object) it is hovering over at the time. Item labels may be toggled at any time. The game is divided into eight chapters (whereas the first and third ''Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |