Jane Jensen
eBook - ePub

Jane Jensen

Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Jane Jensen

Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects

About this book

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play. Yet most of the games in these new genres featured fantasylands or humorous science fiction landscapes with low stakes and little to suggest the potential of the PC as a serious space for art and play. Jane Jensen's work and landmark Gabriel Knight series brought a new darkness and personality to PC gaming, offering a first powerful glimpse of what games could be as they came of age. As an author and designer, Jensen brought her approach as a designer-writer hybrid to the forefront of game design, with an approach to developing environments through detailed research to make game settings come to life, an attention to mature dilemmas and complex character development, and an audience-driven vision for genres reaching beyond the typical market approaches of the gaming industry. With a brand new interview with Jensen herself, Anastasia Salter provides the first ever look Jensen's impact and role in advancing interactive narrative and writing in the game design process.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Foreword
  10. 1 Introduction: Long Ago at Sierra
  11. 2 Being Gabriel Knight: Character and Research-Driven Interactive Narrative
  12. 3 Hidden Objects: Crafting Mystery through Dazzle and Reward
  13. 4 Down Pinkerton Road: Jensen and the Adventure Game Renaissance
  14. 5 Jane Jensen: In Her Own Words
  15. 6 Legacy of a Writer-Designer
  16. Gameography
  17. Notes
  18. Works Cited
  19. Index
  20. Copyright Page