Ragnar Tørnquist

Ragnar Tørnquist ( born July 31, 1970 in Oslo, Norway) is a computer game designer and author who has worked for the Norwegian game developer and publisher " Funcom ", based in Oslo.

Biography

Tørnquist studied art, history and English at St. Clare's at Oxford from 1987 until 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo. After graduating, he attended the " Undergraduate Film and Television department" of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1990 to 1993. After graduating from NYU, he worked for a year for the small game developers Herbipolis as an artist, animator, Co - designer and Assistant Producer. In 1994 he returned to Oslo and began working for Funcom as a producer, designer, author and level editor of the video game adaptation of the movie Casper.

With computer games such as The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, the sequel Tørnquist want to define a new sub-genre of contemporary adventure games, the so-called "modern Adventure". The necessity of such a concept originated in the opinion of Tørnquist by the extinction of the old point- and-click adventure games. Through the use of new technologies and developments, a new generation of the genre should be created and thus again be mainstream -ready: "The classic point- and-click ' graphical adventure' is dead ... The point of the ' modern adventure' [. ..] is to bring adventure gaming back into the mainstream, and to use technology and gameplay advances to bring the genre forward into the ' next generation '. "

Computer Games

• Casper ( 1996)

Producer / Designer

• Dragonheart: Fire & Steel ( 1996)
• The Longest Journey ( 1999)

Author / Director

• Anarchy Online (2001)
• Dreamfall The Longest Journey ( 2006)
• The Secret World (2012 )
• Dreamfall Chapters (in development)

Novels

• Anarchy Online - Prophet Without Honour (2001)