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11 Facts About Jane Jensen

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Jane Jensen was born on January 28,1963 and is an American video game designer and author.

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Jane Jensen is the creator of the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games, and co-founded Oberon Media and Pinkerton Road video game development companies.

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Jane Jensen attended and graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School, and then received a BA in computer science from Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana.

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The dark, supernatural mystery was a departure for Sierra but the game was enthusiastically received, with the strength of Jane Jensen's writing, along with the game's horror and gothic sensibilities coming in for particular praise from the gaming press and earning the Computer Gaming World's "Adventure Game of the Year" award.

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Jane Jensen followed up Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers with two sequels: The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery in 1995 and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned in 1999.

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In 1997, Jane Jensen published a novelization of the first Gabriel Knight game.

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In 1999, Jane Jensen published her first non-adapted novel, Millennium Rising.

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Jane Jensen has been involved in designing casual online games at Oberon Media, of which she is a co-founder.

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Jane Jensen was a story consultant on Phoenix Online Studios' 2012 adventure game Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller.

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Since 2013, Jane Jensen has written gay romance fiction under the pen name "Eli Easton".

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Jane Jensen owned a farm in Pennsylvania, where she lived with her husband, composer Robert Holmes, who composed the music for the Gabriel Knight series and Gray Matter.