Gabriel Knight 4 - blog

This is definitely one of the best online magazines available for computer adventure games - Adventure Lantern. The imagery’s nice - a lantern shining in the darkness - and it seems delightfully coincidental that the image which we, the Campaign, chose for the GK4Campaign site features Gabe in that memorable pose, standing beneath the light of a street lantern.

The vivid impression is that of colour, light, dogged determination, courage in the face of the night.

Ah, but enough philosophising… This month’s (September 2006) Adventure Lantern magazine is now available for download, and it includes not one, but TWO features on Gabriel Knight. One is a review of Gabriel Knight 3, written by Thaumaturge who’s a long-time fan of the GK series, a devoted adventure game player, an excellent writer and a semi-recent member of the GK forum.

And the other is an article written by me (Ingrid Heyn) concerning the powerful use by Jane Jensen of similar elements later used by Dan Brown. But whereas Dan Brown’s use isn’t garnering him any LITERARY awards, however popular the Da Vinci Code novel is, Jane Jensen’s outstanding writing is something else again. For the full story, go on… read this month’s Adventure Lantern. You can download it as a pdf file, and print it out if you prefer a hard copy.

It seems almost impossible to believe… but according to this article, Jane Jensen’s Gray Matter is finally going to be made. The publisher is ANACONDA/dtp, a European game company.

For all fans of Gabriel Knight, rejoice… This is wonderful news!

With Gray Matter given the go-ahead, the prospect for GK4 does indeed… seem… even brighter.

Gray Matter is mentioned as being intended for release in the fourth quarter of 2007. All GK fans are urged to keep an eye out for this.

This is an exciting development which we’ve had in the works for a while. The campaign site now has several translations available - so far it’s German, Portuguese and Russian in addition to our standard English.

Now bear in mind, this doesn’t mean EVERY page is translated… because we have too many pages to make that realistic. But the main pages either ARE translated or WILL BE translated.

They include: Our Aim; The GK Story So Far; Why We Need GK; How You Can Help; GK4 Current Status; Who Is Gabe Knight.

Our translators will be credited in our Acknowledgements page (expect to see the names listed this week), but so far we have to thank Claudia Martins for her excellent work on the Portuguese translations; Eyewitness for doing all of the Russian translations (I’m still working on coding the pages, but the translations themselves are done); Elli (Morgana Luzifer) for a third of the German translations; and me for the remaining German translations.

We’re expecting the French translation quite soon - thank goodness I won’t have to do it. (I feel decidedly “translated out”.)

If there are any volunteers for translations into languages not yet listed, please let me know. Your willing help will be valued.