Jane Jensen starts Pinkerton Road
Jane Jensen, the creative force behind the Gabriel Knight series and more recently Gray Matter, has announced plans for a new company - Pinkerton Road - that will rely on crowd funding for some of its resources.
Following in the steps of Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2, Jensen has opened a Kickstarter page, where fans can pledge money towards the first "season" of Pinkerton titles. The seasonal concept makes this one a little different, and Jensen will let fans decide which out of three adventure concepts gets made during the first season if they reach their target of $300,000 - in fact if they reach $600,000 then two of them will be made by June 2013. Jensen also has plans for a kids e-book called Lola and Lucy's Big Adventure that will be part of the first season.
But on to the proposed concepts:
"Story: Renegade Oxford Neurobiologist Dr. David Styles and his assistant, American street magician, Samantha Everett, continue on David's quest to research powers of the mind. In this game, they visit the home of a dead student who had the power to unleash a fiery force when her emotions were charged. What is the nature of her genetic lineage? Was her devastating gift a fluke? Or do the xenophobic residents of her small island home harbor secrets they'd rather the world not know?
Art Style & Mechanic: Like Gray Matter, this game will have a pre-rendered 3D art style (aka "2.5 D"). It will be a 3rd person adventure game with a point-and-click mechanic like Gray Matter and an improved magic interface -- and more time playing Dr. Styles!"
<bild>Game Concept B: Moebius.</bild>
"Story: Malachi Rector is an antiquities dealer who hunts down artifacts all over the world. After losing everything in a fire, he's hired by a Manhattan millionaire to investigate a series of events and document them in his meticulous way. But Rector soon realizes that the events hold a bizarre significance, as does his own existence. This is a metaphysical thriller ala Dante's Equation and Gabriel Knight.
Art Style & Mechanic: 2D, graphic novel look and feel (like an updated GK1). It will be a 3rd person adventure game with a point-and-click mechanic and lots of sophisticated puzzles."
<bild>Game Concept C: Anglophile Adventure</bild>
Information on this concept will be announced soon.
Currently, the project has about 800 backers with $63,707 pledged. There are 43 days to go so there is still plenty of time for adventure game fans to rally. Here is the Kickstarter link again.