Jane Jensen

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Jane Jensen (b. 28 January 1963 in Palmerston, Pennsylvania) is the game designer of the popular and critically-acclaimed Gabriel Knight adventure games and author of the novels Judgement Day and Dante's Equation.

Jane Jensen was born Jane Elizabeth Smith. She received a BA in Computer Science from Anderson University in Indiana and worked as a systems programmer for Hewlett-Packard. Her love of both computers and creative writing eventually led her to the computer gaming industry, where she established her reputation with Gabriel Knight. The Gabriel Knight PC games are supernatural mysteries done in an adventure game style, and are some of the most story-intensive games ever developed. All three Gabriel Knight titles won numerous industry awards.

In 1996, Jensen published a novelization of the first Gabriel Knight game. A second Gabriel Knight novelization followed in 1998. In 1999, Jensen published her first original novel, Millennium Rising (later retitled Judgment Day). Her fourth book, Dante's Equation was published in 2003. Dante's Equation was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

Jensen has most recently been involved in designing casual online games at Oberon Media, notably some mystery/puzzle games called Inspector Parker and Betrapped,a game that intended to mix traditional adventure elements into the milieu of the casual game.

Jane Jensen lives in Seattle with her second husband, composer Robert Holmes.

[edit] Future titles

German publisher dtp has announced that Jensen will be offering a world exclusive debut of her latest project during the 2006 Leipzig Games Convention. The new project, called Gray Matter, is due to be published worldwide by dtp late in 2007.