Jane JensenDeveloper 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 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” which is in development at Tonuzaba Entertainment and will be published in Q4 2007 by Anaconda Games (a dtp label). The game will be a mystery game with paranormal elements. As CSI games lets players use real forensics technics, Gray Matter will include neurobiological methods. The two main characters are neurobiologist Dr. David Styles and street performer/magician Samantha Everett. Gray Matter is planned as a series of games, the first installment of which has the subtitle "Such stuff as dreams are made of". Websites
Games CreditedWomen's Murder Club: A Darker Shade Of Grey (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
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.
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