A Conversation with Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight writer & game designer)!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2022
- Join me for my conversation with the legendary game designer, Jane Jensen, co-creator of Sierra Online's Kings Quest VI, and mastermind of their Gabriel Knight series. Not to mention Gray Matter, & Moebius, produced with her composer husband and frequent collaborator, Robert Holmes.
Jane is also a romance novelist with more than 50 novels to her credit.
We had a great talk and I look forward to sharing it with you all.
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Thanks everyone for the lovely comments!
Hey, not sure if you’ll ever see this comment but I had (half joking) question/s…Who was the bigger goth at Sierra between Lorelei Shannon and yourself; and which of you, would you say, had the more twisted mind? 😂 all in good fun
You have always been one of the people I have most admired in the whole world. I miss your work very much. You are a inspiration. Thanks for sharing your art with us.
Thanks Mrs. Have a copy of your beast within book. Regards to both you and your husband from a game fan here in manila, Philippines.
Just want to say thank you for the games you gave to us through the years. Even the Poirot adaptations shine out from the sea of HOG flicks.
The writing is amazing in all GK episodes.
My all time favorite computer game is "Sins of the Fathers". Never denied it, never will.
Thank you.
Jane's writing is such a treasure to the world of gaming. I wish she would come back to gaming, but even if she never does I appreciate everything she's done. LEGEND!
GK3.. Best adventure of all time. A masterpiece. The scenes? The voice acting? The music? Everything 100% accurate! Still hoping to see GK4.
Gray Matter and Moebius are so underrated, thank you Jane for creating these stories! Still hoping for GM2, I miss Sam and David~
Thank you. I miss them too. A shame I didn't get to continue those series.
@@janeholmes1703 ♥
gray matter is such a cool adventure game. Hopefully houdini didnt magically get out of his cage again
WOW. I would have never thought, that i would see an interview with jane jansen!! SO AWESOME! Gabriel Knight is one of my favourite games of all time! You are a very talented and gifted storyteller, miss jensen. i played through the remaster a few weeks ago and the nostalgia got me almost drunk!! much love from austria!
Gabriel Knight 3 (yes, *3*) is one of my favorite point and click adventure games of all time and I would kill for a remake or at least a remaster that would make it easier to play on modern computers. I can't believe that it's approaching its 25th anniversary :x
I remember coat hanger and cat hair mustache.
I can't wait to watch this. I literally grew up on Jane Jensen games and unfortunately it had both a positive and negative effect on me.
Positive because I got to experience two of the best written pieces of interactive media ever and negative because I grew up comparing all narratively driven games to her works afterwards and it would be an understatement to say that most never get even to a 10th of what she was able to achieve.
Gabriel Knight 2 is especially special; mixing bicurious themes; real history seamlessly into dark fantasy and all whilst being presented with some of the greatest characters; acting; music and presentation.
No other game has come close.
I seriously hope that one day Jane is able to make another big game because she deserves it
Wow. Thank you.
@Entropy I don't think you grasp what I'm talking about when I talk about the brilliance of her writing.
There are plenty if CRPG's with great writing, Disco Elysium proves they are still being made. But CRPG's are inspired by tabletop games that lend themselves to good writing because there is usually incredible amount of dialog and space to write.
What I love about JJ's writing is that it's mostly grounded. Sure there are werewolves but you could actually replace all of the demons in her story with 'rich people' or people of power and they wouldn't change all that much.
Planescape Torment has a talking skull. They aren't comparable.
We might not get a Gabriel Knight 4, but we still got 3 pretty good games.
Gray Matter is masterpiece . thank you Jane🥰
Jane is one of the best writers and designers of our time. And she's an inspiration to me as an aspiring game developer. Thanks for the awesome conversation.
I grew up playing the Gabriel Knight games. Loved them!
Aside from the Gabriel Knight Trilogy, I was pleased to have the books to read along side the games. The stories are what made the series so suspenseful .
You're doing games preservation/history a service. Thank you!
This is fantastic, Curtis! Jane Jensen is such a legend. Kings Quest 6 is easily the best KQ-game, Gabriel Knight is easily one of the best VGA era adventure games, Gabriel Knight 2 is easily one of the best FMV era adventure games, Gabriel Knight 3 is easily one of the best early 3D era adventure games and Gray Matter is easily one of the best modern adventure games. Her games are so unique, and so exceptionally well written and executed. I recently replayed Gray Matter and that game is a masterpiece! It's injustice on a cosmic level that Gray Matter didn't get at least ONE sequel :)
Thank you again, Curtis, for this interview!
So, awesome! I've been a fan of her games since the first one. Really wish her work continued on into more. A great writer that stands out among many.
Gabriel Knight is still in my top ten favorite game series. I first played Gabriel Knight 1 about a year after it came out. I was still a kid in grade 6 back then. It quickly became my favorite PC game. I grew up playing the GK series, and it's still a game series I play regularly even to this day so many years later. Thank you for creating this series Jane! Some of the best memories I have of growing up is playing these adventure games with my mom, trying to figure out the puzzles and enjoying the stories.
Sins of the Fathers absolutely blew my mind back in the day. I didn't even know there was a sequel until a couple years ago. Downloaded Beast Within and it also blew my mind, such hilarious, creepy fun, all these years later. Fingers crossed GK4 happens.
A wonderful interview. Well conducted! Nice to see JJ in the flesh after playing her games!
Y'all are gonna love this one. Hope you can join us for the premiere.
Just stumbled upon this interview. But how great to have a spotlight on this incredible series again (and also Phantasmagoria). Such a huge part of my youth.
Vertigo Games (Dutch Company) just released 7th Guest VR (Remake). I don't know how it did financially, but it's very much in the spirit of the original.
VR is still a niche market (like FMV was back in the day). But the Meta headsets are pretty capable nowadays.
So great to see this interview and I would love a remake of the 2nd/3rd one and a new chapter in Gabriel's adventures.
Inspiring interview! Thank you so much Jane Jensen :) - and thanks Paul for making it happen.
Love her and her work. I keep hoping a new game will pop up but it sounds like that's more challenging than I thought. Her books are awesome.
Can't wait for this Jane Jensen interview, I wonder do we find out what happened to Gabriel and Grace!
I miss your stories Jane. GK, GK3, GM, Moebius were such wonderful games. I would really like to see a GK4 but I know that's almost impossible to develop such games today. The gaming industry changed so much but I still hope that a project like GK4 will someday be financially viable again. I wish you all the best.
Dude, I'm so excited for this!
Thanks to everyone involved to bring this to fruition.
Great interview with the wonderful Jane Jensen. I actually didn't know she was a fellow computer science graduate, but it makes sense to me. I was one of the Kickstarter backers for Moebius, which I really enjoyed.
I really hope Dean changes his mind and comes on one day. It would mean so much to us :-)
Such a fun, interesting and cool interview! Jane rocks!!!
Thank you for this one. My favourite game designer of all time... incredible talent. And the two Gabriel Knight books are also amazingly written.
It's too bad I was busy and couldn't watch the premiere, but this was a great one!
Thanks for another great interview Paul.
Regarding Dean's refusal to chat - I can't understand that for the life of me... Unless he's ashamed of what he did, or super-ultra busy, why would someone refuse a 1-hour chat about a work he did that still means so much to people that loved and appreciated what he did...?!
This interview ruled and it was cool seeing Jane confirm GK2 is a queer game. It made me happy that she's very busy writing novels and also wants to make another game sometime, and not what I expected either. I assumed it would be another adventure game or visual novel (which I also enjoy) but VR would be very different and cool too.
Another great interview with a legend😆👍
Wow! I just discovered your channel after finishing Immortality and searching for Sam Barlow interviews. Then after those, I discovered who you were! I actually used to own Phantasmagoria 2. Never played part one. Very cool. But my absolute no. 1 adventure game is Gabriel Knight. I've played many Jane Jensen games and even read a few of her books. Judgment Day remains one of the best books I've ever read. Anyway, bottom line, your channel is a gold mine! Subscribed and looking forward to new content.
So glad you found us @ArianStoetzer! Lots of conent to catch up on. Enjoy!
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This is so good! Love your works
Thank you!
What a fantastic interview! First video I've seen on your channel and I am going to have to spend a lot of time here. You are a great interview host with good questions. I am a massive fan of Gabriel Knight 1 and 2, played through them both many times. Awesome to see Jane unload some of that history!
So glad you found us @Lan Tarryk Kozar, and thanks for the kind words. Yeah, it was a real treat talking with Jane. (You should check out my conversations with Robert Holmes and Brad Greenquist next).
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So amazing people you two! Thanks for this! Greetings from Buenos Aires
This is going to be epic. Cannot wait. 😁
Really wonderful, thanks :)
Just finished playing Moebius today, in fact. Not one of Jane's best, but a welcome addition to her catalogue. I hope to see her return to adventure games.
That's a shame that she never played Phantasmagoria 2....I thought it was very well written (far and away a better game than Phantasmagoria 1.) Jane has written some pretty heavy hitters herself so her take on it would have been welcome. She pretty much saved the King's Quest series when she was added to KQ6; especially after the giant turd that was KQ5. KQ6 became (IMHO) and still is the best KQ game. And Gabriel Knight 3 is, of course, among my all-time favorites.
KQ6 was a blast. Thanks for the kind words.
**SQUEALS**
cant you just extract the video files and use someting like topaz gigapixel to upscale the digital videos and backgrounds?
The videos have a very low resolution and a very low frame rate.
There's only so much that Topaz can do...
Great interview, thanks!
Since you mention modern youtube-based choose-your-own-adventure projects, you might like this talk by game designer Brian Moriarty about the earliest ones:
ua-cam.com/video/M6_lys8vYLA/v-deo.html
(Brian is an excellent storyteller and all of his talks are amazing)
It might also be fun to interview some of the modern innovators in the field, such as Sam Barlow (Her Story), or the Contradiction team
These newfangled youtubers.
i have to be honest, you should have prepared all the questions first.
you asked twice "how are you" it kind of feels like a very unprepared interview and a waste of a great game dev!
im just being honest here.
Why the heck she never wrote a sequel to Gabriel Knight?