That's why I'm gonna be playing devil's advocate here and try to emphasize everything that's good about Moebius: Empire Rising. Notwithstanding further injections from within Jane and composer husband Robert Holmes' new two-man studio, Pinkerton House, and the external contractees having agreed to receive less up-front in favor of a slice from the proceeds, there definitely wasn't going to be talk of a proud massively polished megadventure from the Golden 90's – nor of marketing befitting one. ![]() For reference, Gabriel Knight 2, itself shrunk several chapters from the planning stages, cost somewhere around $4.000.000. $390k was the effective yield from Jensen's 2012 Kickstarter campaign that was purported to fund Moebius, one of three choices her fans got to vote for. ![]() Whenever anything has been holding her back, it certainly hasn't been the stories or characters, but rather some problems in the technical realization and testing that you can never take for granted – a side effect, no doubt, of the changing times with considerably less lavish budgets for the adventure genre. Mystery" originally got into writing and designing games at Sierra with Police Quest III and EcoQuest, then birthing the household character of Gabriel Knight, later unable to ride the bucking bull that is the games industry to quite the same amount of recognition. The most obvious reason anyone would like to try this 2014 supernatural adventure is the alliterating pen name of Jane Jensen.
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