Jane Jensen Launches New Game Studio ‘Pinkerton Road’ & KickStarter Project

Jane Jensen , the leg­endary adven­ture game designer who brought us the incred­i­ble Gabriel Knight series of games and Gray Mat­ter (my per­sonal favorite adven­ture game of the past few years), has launched a new game stu­dio called Pinker­ton Road out of her Lan­caster, PA farm.

To fund the new com­pany and its upcom­ing game projects, Jane is reach­ing out to fans on Kick­Starter –the same fundrais­ing plat­form that recently helped Dou­ble Fine Adven­ture achieve mete­oric suc­cess .

Jane hopes to raise $300,000 for what she describes as “CSG” — Com­mu­nity Sup­ported Gam­ing.  Rather than raise money to fund a sin­gle game or project (e.g. Dou­ble Fine), Jane wants sup­port­ers to become an invested part of the studio’s total cre­ative output:

Our CSG will work in a sim­i­lar way. Sign up as a Pinker­ton Road CSG mem­ber, and  you’ll get all of the awe­some games we pro­duce for one year *. The CSG model will help our stu­dio sur­vive finan­cially so that we can make the kinds of games that YOU and WE want to play (not what some big publisher’s mar­ket­ing depart­ment has decided will be the next big hit).

But, let’s be hon­est, this bril­liant idea goes beyond that!  We want our cus­tomers to feel like part of our stu­dio fam­ily (as many did in the Sierra On-Line days). As a CSG mem­ber,  you’ll get  reg­u­lar video updates  on what we’re doing, peeks at the newest art, glimpses of our games in devel­op­ment and  the inside scoop what it’s like to oper­ate a game stu­dio.  It’s like you’ll have a vir­tual desk right next to ours.

Being a huge fan of Jane Jensen’s work, I’ve already donated to the cause and can’t wait to see what she’s got in store for us.

How to Show Your Support:

(Because I really want to see Jane Jensen’s new ven­ture be a huge success!)

1.  Donate to Jane’s Pinker­ton Road Kick­Starter Project . She’s accept­ing dona­tions in any amount of $1 or more.  For $16 or more dol­lars, you’ll get to own at least one of the games the stu­dio will release its first year, and for $50 you’ll get to own all of them.

2.  Like Jane Jensen on Facebook.

3.   Tweet this  and fol­low @jensen_jane on Twitter!

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