Jane Jensen

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Jane Jensen

About

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Jane Jensen (born Jane Elizabeth Smith, January 28th, 1963 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania) is a North American game designer and author. She is best known for her work on the Gabriel Knight series.

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. She worked as a writer on Police Quest III and EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus in the same year. In 1992, she co-designed King's Quest VI with Roberta Williams.

Jensen's first major project was Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993), followed by two sequels, all of which she designed and wrote. Jensen notably studied various aspects of occult sciences and mythology in order to add credibility and detail to the storylines of these games. She traveled to Germany in order to research local folklore, which was later incorporated into The Beast Within (1995). She acknowledges Stephen King and Anne Rice as her primary influences in writing.

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.

Jensen also wrote two novel adaptations of Gabriel Knight and two independent novels, Judgment Day (1999) and Dante's Equation (2003).

Jane Jensen currently owns a farm in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband Robert Holmes, who composed the music for the Gabriel Knight games. On April 5, 2012 the couple announced the establishment of the development studio Pinkerton Road.

Home Page

• janejensen.com/index0.html (web archive)
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• Jane Jensen on Twitter

Games by Jane Jensen

Title	Year	Credits
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus	1991	Designer
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned	1999	Designer
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers	1993	Designer & Creative Director
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 20th Anniversary Edition	2014	Executive Producers
Gray Matter	2010	Designer
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow	1993	Designer, Directer
Moebius: Empire Rising	2014	Designer, Directer, Executive Producers
Pepper's Adventures in Time	1993	Designer
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery	1995	Game Designed by

Contributions by Jane Jensen

Title	Year	Credits
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 1: The Hangman	2012	Story Consultant
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 2: The Wise Monkey	2013	Story Consultant
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 3: The Oracle	2013	Story Consultant
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 4: The Cain Killer	2013	Story Consultant
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus	1991	Design
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned	1999	Writer
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers	1993	Text & Dialogue, Manual Writer, Gabriel Knight by
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 20th Anniversary Edition	2014	Special Edition Contributor, The Phoenix Team would like to thank (Jane), With Thanks to the Original GK1 Team
Gray Matter	2010	Story by, Dialogues by, Characters by
King's Quest Collection	2006	Special Thanks Go To
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow	1992	Writer, Text & Dialogue, Guidebook Written by
King's Quest Collection Series	1997	Special thanks go to
King's Quest Collector's Edition	1994	Special Thanks go to
Moebius: Empire Rising	2014	Written by, Executive Producer, "The Wheel" (Lyrics), Thanks
Police Quest 3: The Kindred	1991	Documentation, Writer / Additional Written Material
Quest for Infamy	2014	This game would not be possible without the help, advice, inspiration and guidance from the following people
Space Quest Collector's Edition	1994	Video
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery	1995	Written by, Opera Libretto Written by
The Dagger of Amon Ra	1992	Flapper

See Also

• Releases by Jane Jensen
• Contributions by Jane Jensen
• Jane Jensen on Wikipedia
• Jane Jensen on MobyGames
• Jane Jensen on IMDb