Ragnar Tørnquist

Ragnar Tørnquist
Born 31 July 1970 (1970-07-31) (age 41)[1]
Oslo, Norway
Residence Oslo, Norway
Nationality Norwegian
Education University of Oslo
Tisch School of the Arts[2]
Occupation Video game designer and game producer
Years active 1994–present
Employer Funcom
Notable works The Longest Journey series
Anarchy Online
The Secret World
Children One daughter[3]
Website
www.ragnartornquist.com

Ragnar Tørnquist (born 31 July 1970) is a Norwegian game designer and author. He works for Funcom in Oslo.

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Biography

Tørnquist studied art, history and English at St Clare's, Oxford from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990, he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo. After that, from 1990 to 1993 he attended the Undergraduate Film and Television department at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[2] In 1994, he returned to Oslo, Norway and started working for Funcom as producer, designer, writer, and level-editor of the video game adaptation of Casper.[4]

Ragnar Tørnquist has one daughter.[3]

Tørnquist is credited with popularizing the term "modern adventure", a term used to describe contemporary adventure game design that began with games such as The Longest Journey, Broken Sword, and Syberia. He felt that a new term was needed to describe this new generation of adventure games since "the classic point-and-click 'graphical adventure' is dead... The point of the 'modern adventure' [...] is to bring adventure gaming back into the mainstream, and to use technology and gameplay advances to bring the genre forward into the 'next generation'."[2]

Game credits

Producer/Designer

Writer/Director

Novels

References

  1. ^ Tørnquist, Ragnar (August 1, 2003). "I celebrated my birthday yesterday...". Archived from the original on 2004-02-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20040205154728/http://ragnartornquist.com/2003_08_01_thoughtsarchive.html#105974282948874084. Retrieved 2009-06-11. 
  2. ^ a b c Jong, Philip (2006-11-04). "Interview with Ragnar Tørnquist on "Modern Adventure"". AdventureClassicGaming.com. http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/231/. Retrieved 2007-06-15. 
  3. ^ a b Tørnquist, Ragnar (2007-08-29). "Breaking news! Unannounced surprise project just released!". Archived from the original on 2008-06-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20080627191719/http://ragnartornquist.com/?p=374. Retrieved 2007-08-30. "On Sunday [26 August 2007], I became the proud father of a baby girl..." 
  4. ^ Sluganski, Randy. "Interview with Ragnar Tørnquist". JustAdventure.com. http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/Ragnar_Tornquist/Ragnar_Tornquist.shtm. Retrieved 2007-06-15. 
  5. ^ "April 2012 ship date announced" (in English). 2011-08-16. http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/ship_date_april_2012_the_secret_war_starts_august_26. Retrieved 2011-08-16. "Today at the EA GamesCom press conference, Funcom and EA Partners announced that The Secret World will ship in April 2012." 
  6. ^ "EA and Funcom invite players to enter ‘The Secret World’ in April 2012" (in English). 2011-08-16. http://www.funcom.com/news/ea_and_funcom_invite_players_to_enter_the_secret_world_in_april_2012. Retrieved 2011-08-16. "World-leading independent game developer Funcom and EA Partners, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced that the highly anticipated modern-day, Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO), ‘The Secret World’ will release for the PC in April, 2012." 

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