Doesn’t that look loverly? It gives me the same dark feelings that Gabriel Knight did. I mean, not like the “I want to kill people” dark feelings, but an over all sense of mystery.

According to ANACONDA’s site, who happen to be the people publishing the game, Gray Matter should be out sometime in the first quarter of 2008.

I giveth my thanks to those lovely people at GameBoomers for the images. You can read their entry on the topic here.]

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Now For a Look At Some Gray Matter…

Who loves Gamasutra? I love Gamasutra!! And do you know why? Because they always have insightful gaming articles that pique the interest and warm the heart. And what’s even better is that often times they have articles about adventure gaming and not just about all the other gaming that is so popular in today’s youth.

I mean, take a look at this article here. It is teeming with Jane Jensen goodness and we just can’t get any better than that. I mean, just look at the perils that Jane faced when deciding her career options:

Jensen describes books as her “first love” while growing up, noting that she “always wanted to be a writer”. However, the search for a “lucrative career option” that was unlikely to see her “waitressing at a Denny’s,” saw her majoring in Computer Science by the time she reached college age.

… Because we all know that the best way to learn how to write books is to major in Computer Science! I mean, look at me! I majored in computer science and I have 20 books written!

Okay, no I don’t. This is my only writing outlet and we’ll just say that it isn’t publishing material. Damnit.

After reading this article, I think Jane Jensen is my new hero.

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Jane Jensen interview on Gamasutra

One of my sources that updates quite infrequently, Brass Lantern, finally put some cool stuff up on their site. The best part of all the news updates, however, was the little tidbit that was shared about Jane Jensen’s soon to be released (in 2008… not so soon, damnit), Gray Matter. Brass Lantern reported that there was an interview that GameSpot UK.

During her 8 year hiatus from creating adventure games, Jensen worked on a series of books that delve further into her interests of the paranormal. She also help create several casual games (what is a casual game anyways?) for a company called Oberon Media. The games she help create include Inspector Parker and BeTrapped.

Her new adventure game, Gray Matter, takes place in Oxford, UK, which focuses on two weird characters who are interested in the paranormal. These characters Samantha Everett a street performer and Dr. Styles, who I’m guessing is a doctor, come together to make an exciting game about experimentations. I love experimentations.

According to the interview, Jane Jensen would love to do another Gabriel Knight, but says that the future of the game is in the “hands of Vivendi”, whom own the rights to Gabriel Knight. Jensen has two different stories that could be applied to the Gabriel Knight series. I’m sure there are tons of people who would be interested in the continuation of the series… I know I would be.

Also, the interviewers asked Jensen if Gray Matter would be a series. She definitely would love to take on the form of a series, as she has set the game up to come out in parts. She even uses the term “episodes”, so maybe we shall have another episodic game in our hands.

The interview has a lot of great information. Go. Read! It might make you go “hmmmm”.

[image borrowed from gameboomers]

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Jane Jensen and Gray Matter