Ragnar Tornquist

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Ragnar Tørnquist at E3 2013

Ragnar Tørnquist (born July 31, 1970 in Oslo , Norway ) is a computer game designer and author who worked for the Norwegian game developer and publisher " Funcom " based in Oslo. In September 2012 he founded his own game development company under the name Red Thread Games .

biography

Tørnquist studied art, history and English at the private St. Clare's University in Oxford from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo . After completing his studies, he attended the "Undergraduate Film and Television Department" of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University from 1990 to 1993 . After graduating from NYU , he worked for the small game developer Herbipolis for a year as a graphic designer, animator, co-designer and assistant producer. In 1994 he returned to Oslo and joined Funcom as producer, designer, writer and level editor of the video game adaptation of the film Casper .

With computer games like Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and the sequel Dreamfall: Chapters , Tørnquist wants to define a new sub-genre of contemporary adventure games, the so-called “modern adventure”. In Tørnquist's opinion, the need for such a term arose from the extinction of the old point-and-click adventure games . Through the use of new technologies and developments, a new generation of the genre should be created and thus fit for the mainstream again: "The classic point-and-click 'graphical adventure' is dead ... The point of the 'modern adventure' [. ..] is to bring adventure gaming back into the mainstream, and to use technology and gameplay advances to bring the genre forward into the 'next generation'. "

Tørnquist is married and has one daughter.

Ludography

Producer / designer

Author / Director

Novels

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red Thread Games - About ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / redthreadgames.com
  2. ↑ a b Jong, Philip: Interview with Ragnar Tørnquist in "Modern Adventure" . AdventureClassicGaming.com . November 4, 2006. Retrieved June 15, 2007.
  3. ↑ Biography for Ragnar Tørnquist . imdb.com . Retrieved March 7, 2008.
  4. ↑ Sluganski, Randy: Interview with Ragnar Tørnquist . JustAdventure.com . Archived from the original on January 8, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2007.
  5. ↑ RockPaperShotgun.com: Ragnar Tørnquist On… Dreamfall & Faith. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tørnquist, Ragnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian computer game designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway