Her love of both computers and creative writing eventually led her to the computer gaming industry and Sierra OnLine where she worked as a writer on ' and EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus. After co-designing ' with veteran game designerRoberta Williams, Jensen designed her first solo game: ', which was released in 1993. The dark, supernatural mystery was a departure for Sierra but the game was enthusiastically received, with the strength of Jensen's writing, along with the game's horror and gothic sensibilities coming in for particular praise from the gaming press and earning the Computer Gaming Worlds "Adventure Game of the Year" award. Jensen followed up Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers with two sequels: ' in 1995 and ' in 1999. Somewhat unusually for an adventure game series, each Gabriel Knight title was produced in an entirely different format to the others. Whereas the original was a traditional 2D animated game, the sequels were realised through full motion video and a custom built 3D engine, respectively. Despite further acclaim for Jensen's design in both cases, the large expenses associated with making the sequels, coupled with the declining marketability of adventure games meant that a fourth in the series was not commissioned. In 1997, Jensen published a novelization of the first Gabriel Knight game. A second Gabriel Knight novelization followed in 1998. In 1999, Jensen published her first non-adapted novel, Millennium Rising. Her fourth book, Dante's Equation was published in 2003 and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Jensen has been involved in designing casual online games at Oberon Media, of which she is a co-founder. Her work in the hidden object/light adventure category can partially be credited with moving casual games in the direction of full adventure games in puzzle and story sophistication. Some of her more notable recent games include Deadtime Stories and Dying for Daylight. After leaving Oberon in 2011, she briefly worked at Zynga. Jensen's next big adventure game Gray Matter was developed by Wizarbox and published by dtp entertainment in 2010. The game, originally intended to be developed by Hungarian software house Tonuzaba, switched to another developer, French company Wizarbox in 2008: as a result, the tentative release was changed and shifted to 2010. Jensen was also a story consultant on Phoenix Online Studios' 2012 adventure game '. On April 5, 2012, Jensen and her husband Robert Holmes announced the formation of Pinkerton Road, a new game development studio to be headquartered on their Lancaster, Pennsylvania farm. With this announcement, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to raise funds for the studio's first year of game development. In 2014, Pinkerton released their first games, ' and . Since 2013, Jensen has written gay romance fiction under the pen name "Eli Easton". The Lion and the Crow'' was written for the Goodreads M/M Romance event "Love has No Boundaries" in 2013, and later expanded and rereleased as a second edition in e-book and audiobook.
Personal life
Jensen owns a farm in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband, composer Robert Holmes, who composed the music for the Gabriel Knight series and Gray Matter.
