Jane Jensen
Jane Elizabeth Jensen ( born January 28, 1963 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania as Jane Elizabeth Smith) is an American writer and game designer. She was known for her adventure series Gabriel Knight by Sierra Entertainment.
Career
Jane Jensen was born Jane Elizabeth Smith. After finishing her studies with a Bachelor of Arts from the Department of Computer Science at Anderson University in Indiana, she first worked as Systemprogrammiererin for Hewlett -Packard. Your career in game development began at Sierra On-Line as a writer for Police Quest 3: The Kindred and EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus, both published in 1991. Shortly thereafter, she worked as a designer in the development of King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, together with Roberta Williams, the co-founder of Sierra On-Line next to her husband and CEO Ken Williams but especially as the developer of the Kings Quest series up to now one of the most famous pioneers of computer game genres Adventure.
Following Jane Jensen was the first time the main responsibility for a Games project and as with Sierra under Ken Williams, also one far-reaching freedom, thereby implement own ideas. The final game came when Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers in 1993 to the market. The dark and based on supernatural forces act differed significantly from the previous Sierra adventures, but received very good press reviews and the two American Games Magazine Computer Gaming World and Computer Games Strategy Plus awarded Gabriel Knight the title as the adventure of the year (English: Adventure game of the Year ). A Gabriel Knight Mystery - Second Adventures followed in 1995 as The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, and even got in the Computer Gaming World Award for Game of the Year '96 (English: Game of the Year ). Not only action of the games, even the published for the first two parts accompanying novels came from Jane Jensen's spring. A new edition of the first part of the series in 1996 and 1998, followed in 1999 with '# Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, a third part.
However, in 1999 Jane Jensen resigned from the company after Sierra was only three years before buying and landed several positions with the French Vivendi group. In the same year she published the mystery thriller Millennium Rising, her first stand-alone book, which was later reissued again under the title Judgment Day. Your 2003 published science fiction novel Dante 's Equation was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. As of 2003, Jensen worked on several games of casual games provider Oberon Media, which she herself had co-founded. In 2011 she again left the company and worked for Zynga. Together with the German game publisher dtp entertainment they designed the Adventure Gray Matter, which was released after delay and a change of developer from the Hungarian Tonuzuba to the French company Wizarbox in 2010.
Jane Jensen is married to the former Sierra games composer Robert Holmes, who wrote, among others, the accompanying music for the Gabriel Knights series and Gray Matter. With him and his daughter Raleigh from a previous marriage, she lives on a farm in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There, the couple founded in 2012, its own development studio called Pinkerton Road and announced their intention to develop future games as part of a Community Supported Gaming ( CSG) designated model. Comparable to the established in agriculture Community Supported Agriculture ( CSA). With this announcement, launched a campaign on the crowdfunding platform kickstarter.com to fund by winning CSG members of the first year of the new studio and to enable the development of a first game. The campaign was successful and was the priced at U.S. $ 300,000 project goal to exceed by more than a third.
In addition to publishing funded through Kickstarter game Möbius: Empire Rising Jane Jensen has announced that it will publish a further reissue of the first Gabriel Knight as anniversary edition during the year 2014.
Ludography
Bibliography
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. Roc, 1997, ISBN 978-0451456076.
- The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery. 1998, ISBN 978-0451456212.
- Millennium Rising. Del Rey, 1999, ISBN 978-0345430342. (new title: Judgment Day ).
- Dante 's Equation. Del Rey, 2003, ISBN 978-0345430373.
- Lola and Lucy 's Big Adventure