Jane Jensen
Jane Jensen
Jane Jensenis an American video game designer most known of the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games and an author of novels. She has co-founded Oberon Media and Pinkerton Road video game development companies and also writes romance under the name Eli Easton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth28 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?
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I like the 'Blackwell' adventure games, and I'm fond of some of Telltale's games, like 'Hector' and 'Puzzle Agent' - simple stories, but fun. I thought 'Heavy Rain' was amazing.
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I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.
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Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
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I've always been interested in the paranormal, but 'Gray Matter' is a more subtle, mature expression of that - looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.
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For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.
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Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.
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There are plans for a Wii port of 'Gray Matter,' and I hope it happens.
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There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.