Lori Ann Cole is a game designer, often in cooperation with her husband, professional game programmer Corey Cole. A game programmer is a Programmer who primarily develops Video games or related Software (such as Game development tools. Their team was later named Transolar Games.
Cole's varied background includes elementary education, film animation, and writing. She is a fanatic RPG player, who is uninterested in adventure games. A computer role-playing game ( CRPG) is a broad Video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers An adventure game is a type of Video game characterized by investigation exploration puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters and a focus on Narrative Because of her husband's involvement in Sierra On-line, she decided to create a hybrid role-playing/adventure game. Sierra Entertainment Inc is a Worldwide American Video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta A computer role-playing game ( CRPG) is a broad Video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers An adventure game is a type of Video game characterized by investigation exploration puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters and a focus on Narrative The result was Quest for Glory series. Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid role-playing / adventure Computer games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole.
In a 2003 interview, Cole said Shadows of Darkness was her favorite Quest for Glory game she created, "My favorite game is Shadows of Darkness. Quest for Glory IV Shadows of Darkness is an Adventure game / Role-playing game hybrid It had the proper moods of sombre and silly, scary and magical. It brought back Ad Avis to plague the hero, and introduced the tragic villain of Katrina. It even had the tragic sacrifice of the monster Toby that foreshadows the ending. The game had the strongest of the stories, and put the player in the greatest of dangers without friends or allies. " For many fans of the series, however, Shadow of Darkness received many criticisms due to large number of bugs in the game, making it nearly unplayable--a fact which she also acknowledged, "If you could make it past the thousands of bugs, it was a great game. "
(Patches are however available for most of the bugs at this point. Quest for Glory IV Shadows of Darkness is an Adventure game / Role-playing game hybrid )
Other works in Sierra include a voicing role in the CD-ROM version of King's Quest V and designing Mixed-Up Fairy Tales. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! is a 1990 Adventure game released by Sierra. Mixed-Up Fairy Tales was a graphic Adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1991.
During those years Lori was only a freelance contractor with Sierra working for royalties. When the fifth game of the Quest for Glory series was about to be cancelled, Lori and Corey formed FAR Productions and created Shannara for Legend Entertainment. Shannara is a computer game for the IBM PC based on the Shannara series of books Legend Entertainment was an American developer of Computer games The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end
Finally, when hired as an employee for Sierra, she joined the Dragon Fire development team, which was released in 1998. Quest for Glory V Dragon Fire is the fifth game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra Entertainment. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)
Lori had a cameo headshot in SWAT 2. The SWAT series are the follow up of Sierra 's classic Adventure game series Police Quest.
References
- ^ Adventure Classic Gaming (2003). Lori Ann Cole Interview.
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