Helly everyone,

like for Moebius and Cognition I bring you a thread about easter eggs in a Jane Jensen Game.
The game was full of references like with Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, The Scarlett Furies, Pulp Fiction, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and... and... and....
I was more focusing on Gabriel Knight Easter Eggs and I am also doing this in this first post. But I would also like to read what you did find in general.

- Sam drives like Gabriel a motorcicle.
- In St. Edmunds Hall are names on the wall. Some are students ones. Others are mixed from other names. The names you can find are: Jane Jensen, Roberta Williams, John Doe, Grace Nakimura and Tim Curry.
- One riddle in Gray Matter (copiying secretly a document in the hospital) is very similar to one from Gabriel Knight 1 (copiyng secretly a document at the police station) and another riddle (opening secretly dormrooms of people you have to investigate) is rememberable to similar scenes from Gabriel Knight 3 (opening secretly hotel rooms of other hotel guests you have to investigate).
- The final seems to have it's orientations from Gabriel Knight 2 (one prepares a trap for the enemy, the other one makes it effective)
- Styles has a similar name to an excentric lesbian actress called Estelle Stiles

What did you find?

I wasn't sure and was about to check my copy of the game, but the main soundtrack.. not the Furies one, was very similar to Gabriel Knight 2: the beast within. At least I kept thinking that while I played

Yea, you just need to combine one part of a name with another on the plate beside it.

I also found on it:

Sunny Blonde, the protagonist of "So Blonde" - another Viva Media adventure game.
Parker Lewis of the 90es sitcom.

In the Daedalus Club puzzle, Sam comes to a swampy area where the green key is located. Sam looks at some pieces of wood and says, "Yuck. These planks are covered in disgusting moss and filthy water." That comment is a reference to the first game that Jane Jensen helped write, King's Quest V, in which similar language appears in reference to a swamp. The look of the swamp area in Gray Matter is another reference to the swamp in King's Quest V.

I found several references to gothic fiction in Gray Matter. Some of these references can be fairly called Easter eggs, others are merely genre conventions or common tropes of gothic literature.

1. It is a dark and stormy night/day in almost every screen of Gray Matter.
2. A likable teenage/new adult female protagonist, Sam, is brought by fate or by chance, to work at a house that holds dark secrets.
3. Sam is an orphan, who has no one to take care of her. The danger that she will be put in is made scarier by the fact that until the end of the game, it seems as though Sam has no one to look out for her and no one to even report her missing if something bad happens.
4. The house that Sam works in is presided over by a wealthy man who is simultaneously dashing and scary, and whose dark secrets will be slowly revealed over the course of the game.
5. The man's dark secrets have to do with death and a previous spouse (as in Jane Eyre, whom Sam mentions that she could "play.").
6. David wears a mask, in the style of the Phantom of the Opera, another gothic novel, that suggests both secrets and something frightening lurking underneath.
7. Sam is reading Frankenstein, a classic of gothic literature.
8. Gray Matter is a science fiction story in the mold of Frankenstein. The game's interest in the human mind, and its powers and limitations, is also a common theme in gothic literature, including Frankenstein.

SPOILERS
8. There are several characters who serve as doppelgangers or doubles of each other. These characters include Sam and David, who shared similar extreme reactions to the deaths of loved ones. Laura and the imposter are another pair, for obvious reasons, even though the imposter has purposely made herself like Laura. The imposter and Sam are alike in their use of magic, though Sam's magic is an illusion and the imposter's magic is real.

I just found a ridicolously plain easter egg which is easy to miss.

The plate on Sam's bike says "007".