Ragnar Tørnquist
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person File:DUSTBORN - RAGNAR TØRNQUIST AND DOMINIQUE TIPPER TALK ABOUT DUSTBORN.webm Ragnar Tørnquist (born 31 July 1970) is a Norwegian video game designer and writer. He has been working for Funcom in Oslo since 1994, and founded his own studio Red Thread Games in November 2012.
Biography
Tørnquist studied art, history and English at St Clare's, a school in Oxford, from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990, he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo. After that, from 1990 to 1993 he attended the Undergraduate Film and Television department at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.<ref name="ACG_int">Template:Cite web</ref> His influences included Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman.<ref name="Böke">Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1994, he returned to Oslo, Norway and started working for Funcom as producer, designer, writer, and level-editor of the video game adaptation of Casper.<ref name="JA_int">Template:Cite web</ref> He felt that a new term was needed for a new generation of adventure games since "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'."<ref name="ACG_int" />
On 1 November 2012, Funcom announced that Tørnquist founded an independent game development studio Red Thread Games, which will continue developing The Longest Journey IP under license from Funcom. Simultaneously, Tørnquist stepped down as the Game Director of The Secret World to devote more time to the third entry in TLJ series, Dreamfall Chapters, while still working on TSW as the Creative Director.<ref name="DFChapters_preprod">Template:Cite web</ref>
Tørnquist is married<ref name="Walker">Template:Cite web</ref> and has one daughter.<ref name="RTb_374">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Walker"/>
Games
- Casper (1996)
- Dragonheart: Fire & Steel (1996)
- The Longest Journey (1999)
- Anarchy Online (2001)
- Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (2006)
- The Secret World (2012)
- Dreamfall Chapters (2014–16)
- Draugen (2019)
- Dustborn (2024)
- Svalbard (TBA<ref name="svalbard">Template:Cite web</ref>)
Written works
Novels
- Anarchy Online – Prophet Without Honour (2001)
Short stories
- Rules are Rules
Screenplays
- In the Dark Places