{"id":993,"date":"2011-02-16T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:41:55","slug":"jane-jensen-plays-our-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/jane-jensen-plays-our-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Jensen plays our game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The journey through the creation of <em>The Silver Lining<\/em> has been a great bumpy road. We have had our ups and downs, both internally, and from external factors. There have been times when I&#8217;ve questioned myself: &#8220;Why are we really doing this?&#8221;. Many times, that answer is obvious, for you, the fans, but other times, even we are surprised at the results.<\/p>\n<p>   I never expected, for example, that Roberta Williams would play and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/forum\/index.php?topic=8877.0\">bless<\/a> our game. That was a definite honor, and something the team did not expect in a thousand years. I would have not expected Ken Williams to congratulate us. I did not expect to hear that Josh Mandel, Al Lowe and Scott Murphy would be checking our game out. And I definitely did not expect that my favorite designer, the creator of the glorious<em> Gabriel Knight<\/em> and <em>King&#8217;s Quest VI<\/em>, would have not only played our game, but also be such a cool person to talk to.<\/p>\n<p>   Two weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with Jane on the phone for over an hour. We shared experiences on making games, talked about the ups and downs of <em>The Silver Lining<\/em> and <em>Gray Matter<\/em>, and of course, also talked about <em>Gabriel Knight<\/em>. I had the joy to see some very cool material related to the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>  I asked Jane to play our game. She later emailed me about it, and she said, I quote:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;It was cool to be reminded of the &#8216;land of the green isles&#8217; again and some of those old characters. It is an impressive thing to achieve with volunteer workers and little to no budget.  Good work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    You have to understand one thing: Jane Jensen is the main reason why I wanted to become a videogames writer. I remember one of the first things I wrote in highschool was a play based on <em>Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father<\/em>, which I also directed. To have her play our games and share those thoughts with us&#8230;  I was in heaven! The person I have most admired in the industry commended us on our game!<\/p>\n<p>    Her latest masterpiece, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymatter-game.de\/\">Gray Matter<\/a><\/em>, is coming out on Feb 22nd in North America and on Feb 25th in Europe. I had the chance to play the game, and I was mesmerized by the storyline and I loved the puzzles. Sam and David are very charming characters and you will feel the extraordinary power of Jane&#8217;s pen behind their writing. Do not miss out on the best writing in adventure games in recent history. <\/p>\n<p>Cesar Bittar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you should play hers! Read more about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}