Jane Jensen

Developer BIO

"Ms. Jensen has a truly unique gift: that of being able to weave intricate, intelligent stories, flesh them out with marvelous characters and settings and still succeed in incorporating the whole thing into a good adventure game."
- Games Domain Review

Jane Jensen is the ultimate story-teller. She breathes life into her newborn plot; invents her characters' ideas and thoughts, creates the time and the place for the adventure, and decides the destiny of her characters. Jensen revels in creating her story, and in watching it come to life.

She considers herself, at heart, a writer -- a novelist. Her main literary influences are Stephen King and Anne Rice. She is also a researcher, putting hundreds of hours into the depth of her stories. For The Beast Within, the second Gabriel Knight mystery, Jensen traveled to Germany, the site of the story, to conduct historical research. She believes this research truly creates the feel for the story, and gives depth to its realism.

Jensen's technical background began with a degree in Computer Science from Anderson University in Indiana. Later, she became an engineer for Hewlett-Packard, and was employed there for six years. Her career in interactive entertainment began at Sierra On-Line, Inc. in 1991. Since then, she has had the opportunity to work on such hit titles as Police Quest 3; Gabriel Knight- Sins of the Fathers; Ecoquest; King's Quest VI and Pepper's Adventures In Time. As designer of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Jensen was honored when the game won Computer Gaming World's Adventure Game of the Year and also Best of Show at CES. This accolade was actually surpassed with her next Gabriel Knight adventure, The Beast Within, which netted Jane the top honor that Computer Gaming World can bestow: overall Game of the Year!

In August 2006, at the Leipzig Game Convention, Jane Jensen announced her new game, Gray Matter, one in a planned series of games. Four years in the making, the game was eventually released in November 2010.

Websites

• 2007 interview -- on GameSpot, about her past work and Gray Matter (29th January 2007)
• Jane's blog -- development blog on the Gray Matter website
• Interview with Jane Jensen (December 2007) -- on La Aventura es la Aventura
• 1999 Interview with Jane -- on AdventureClassicGaming
• 2003 Interview -- Another AdventureClassicGaming.com interview
• Escapist Interview (Sep. 25, 2007) -- Paul Rice talks with Jane about her past, present and future.
• Jane Jensen's Website -- Her website which mentions what she is currently doing, some of the games she worked on, and the books she has written.

Games Credited

• Gray Matter (2010), dtp entertainment AG
• Agatha Christie: Dead Man's Folly (2009), I-Play
• Women's Murder Club: Twice in a Blue Moon (2009), I-Play
• Dr. Lynch: Grave Secrets (2008), I-Play
• Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet (2008), I-Play
• Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (2007), Oberon Games, Inc.
• Agatha Christie: Peril at End House (2007), I-Play
• Women's Murder Club: A Darker Shade Of Grey (2007), Elephant Entertainment, LLC, Oberon Media, Inc.
• Galapago (2006), Oberon Games, Inc.
• King's Quest Collection (2006), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
• Scrubbles (2006), Oberon Media, Inc.
• BeTrapped! (2004), Oberon Games, Inc.
• Inspector Parker (2003), Oberon Games, Inc.
• Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest: Collection Series (1997), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest 3: The Kindred (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.