Metaphysical Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Moebius’ To Be Next Jane Jensen Point And Clicker

Jane Jensen and her new development foray, Pinkerton Road Studio, have announced the first game to made under their name following the results of a poll conducted with those who supported via Kickstarter.

Notorious adventure game writer and mystery woman, Jane Jensen, formed her own studio called Pinkerton Road Studio and took to Kickstarter to get adequate funding for the first title. Those who put the money upfront also got to vote on the first title that the studio would produce and now the voting is is. Out of Moebius, Gray Matter 2 and Anglophile Adventure; it was the very first which gained 61% of the vote, probably due to its being pitched as a spiritual successor to Jane’s much loved Gabriel Knight series.

Moebius will be a point and click adventure title adopting the third person view and a 2D graphical look. Intuitively, Moebius will have two modes: Casual Adventure and True Adventure with the former offering hints, hotspot reveals and a simplified interface, the latter being more attune with style and difficulty of Jane’s previous games.

As to the story, well, we’ll leave that to the master:

“Moebius is a metaphysical sci-fi thriller in the vein of Fringe, Jane’s novel Dante’s Equation, and (of course!) Gabriel Knight. Antiquities dealer Malachi Rector hunts down artifacts all over the world and compiles dossiers on their history. He has a knack for sensing “the soul” of an object. After his upscale Manhattan store is destroyed in a fire, Rector is hired by millionaire Amber Dexter to investigate a series of events and document them in his meticulous way.

The first event is the death of a young woman in Venice, who was found hanging from a bridge. As Rector investigates her life, he soon realizes that this beautiful and talented young woman — and the interrupted path of her life — had great hidden significance. It appears that Amber Dexter and his associates are playing with the fabric of life in a way Rector never imagined possible. Even he, Rector himself, is part of a larger pattern.

Malachi Rector must figure out who is doing what — and whether their intentions are for good or ill — before he can decide whether to play his pre-scripted role or try to change the outcome.”

Pinkerton Road Studio still need more funding to ensure that Moebius will be ready to release by March 2013, so get over to Kickstarter and get yourself a copy of the game and other goodies. If funding is exceeded then another title will be released in June 2013

More information on Moebius and Pinkerton Road Studio is available on the official website.