Robert Holmes (composer for the GK series) has launched a crowdfunder with Jane Jensen for a music album in the world of Gabriel Knight called Son of Sequel, which is a follow up his album from last year, Sequel.

There's a somewhat sarcastic stretch goal of making Gray Matter 2 if he and Jane raise a million dollars... but the base goal of $30k seems almost like a lock. And at $75k, the GK2 Wagner opera will be rescored from the ground up with the latest orchestral music software and also visually remastered!

Robert talks about wanting the campaign to bring momentum to the series and make Gabriel Knight 4 happen in this video. Exciting developments if this comes to pass!

While a stretch goal of a million dollars sounds somewhat implausible to me. I am still very happy to back this project.

Important news regarding Robert Holmes's Son of Sequel Kickstarter:

This announcement was just made on Kickstarter:

NEW ADDITIONAL FEATURE!: Gaming Legend Jane Jensen will create an all new short story based within the Gabriel Knight Universe, with images to accompany it, as a Companion to the Son of SEQUEL Album!


This provides a great new incentive to pledge to the campaign! I just upped mine considerably! So, if you can, join in today!

Jane Jenssen promised after GK3 that she would continue the story in written novels.
I own the books to the first two games (first one reads like a walkthrough, the second one is better), there never was a novel to GK3 and she never delivered the promised follow ups.



They really should have separated the music albums from whatever they plan to do with Gabriel.

I agree with your assessment of the two GK novels and actually said so to her face at the GK fan convention in Seattle in 2000 (I hope I didn't offend her there but she didn't seem offended). She pretty well admitted as much there: that she stuck obsessively to an exact retelling of every action in the first novel and then, part way through writing the second novel, decided she didn't need to do that.

I also recall her promise to continue the series in novel form and then not following through, but in all honesty, I'm fairly glad she didn't. GK certainly can be told in novel form (and Jane has written several unrelated novels, one of which was considered for a science fiction award), but those stories really shine as computer games.

Now, it should noted that Jane and Robert do not currently own the rights to GK, so they couldn't produce new stories right now in either game or novel form, but they are hoping this will change at some point in the future. As I pretty much stated in the previous paragraph, I'm hoping (if it happens) that it will be in game form. However, they have also stated they would first like to do a sequel to Gray Matter, which they do have the rights to now, as soon as they can figure out how to raise the kind of money that would be needed to do a full computer game properly. (They've learned the hard way that Kickstarter isn't really the appropriate place for that.)