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Jennell Jaquays
$\"Jaquays$ Jaquays interviewed in 2012
Born	Paul Jaquays (1956-10-14)October 14, 1956 Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 10, 2024(2024-01-10) (aged 67) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Game designer and artist
Genre	Role-playing games, video games
Spouse	Rebecca Heineman^[1]

Jennell Allyn Jaquays^[2] (born Paul Jaquays; October 14, 1956 \u2013 January 10, 2024) was an American game designer, video game artist, and illustrator of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs).^[3] Her notable works include the Dungeons & Dragons modules Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia for Judges Guild; the development and design of conversions on games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for Coleco's home arcade video game system; and more recent design work, including the Age of Empires series, Quake II, and Quake III Arena. One of her best known works as a fantasy artist is the cover illustration for TSR's Dragon Mountain adventure.^[4]^[5]\n

Raised and educated mostly in southern Michigan, Jaquays and friends were early adopters of the D&D game, starting a game club which published a role playing fandom newsletter The Dungeoneer, much of which was written and illustrated by Jaquays. By 1976, Jaquays was contributing to Dragon magazine while bringing the newsletter to Judges Guild. During the first twenty years of the table top role playing industry, Jaquays's writing and art were published by Chaosium, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, Flying Buffalo, West End Games, Iron Crown Enterprises, Game Designers' Workshop, and Task Force Games. Jaquays also influenced the video game industry with significant works at Coleco, id Software, and Ensemble Studios. In 1995, collaborating with Lester W. Smith, Jaquays developed the Dragon Dice collectable dice game for TSR, contributing stylized dice icons and cover art.\n

Jaquays is regarded as an influential pioneer in the adventure game community. While working in Texas, Jaquays cofounded The Guildhall at SMU, a graduate-level game design education program at Southern Methodist University. Inducted in 2017 into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame, Jaquays was posthumously given a Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for her \"significant impact on the science fiction or fantasy landscape\" in 2024. In the field of game design, \"Jaquaysing\" is a term which refers to a multiple path, non-linear, sometimes extra-dimensional approach in scenario writing, considered an innovation created by Jaquays.\n

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Title	Released	System name	Role\n
Donkey Kong\n	July 1982	ColecoVision	Project leader, design, and graphics conversion\n
Omega Race\n	1983	ColecoVision	Project leader, design, and graphics conversion\n
WarGames\n	1984	ColecoVision	Project leader, gameplay co-designer\n
4x4 Off-Road Racing\n	1988	Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum	Game design\n
The Bard's Tale IV^[58]\n	1991\u20131992	(unpublished)	Rewrite and integration\n
Quake II^[59]\n	December 9, 1997	Amiga (68k), AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC), Nintendo 64, Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, Windows, PlayStation, Zeebo	Designer and level designer\n
Quake III Arena^[60]\n	December 2, 1999	Linux, Microsoft Windows, IRIX, Mac OS, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox Live Arcade	Designer and level designer\n
Quake III: Team Arena^[61]\n	December 2000		Designer and level designer\n
Age of Empires III\n	October 18, 2005	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Windows Mobile, N-Gage	Artist\n
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs\n	March 7, 2006	Windows, Mac OS X	Artist\n
Halo Wars\n	February 26, 2009	Xbox 360	Artist and level designer\n

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Early life and education

Career

The Dungeoneer and fantasy roleplaying

Judges Guild, later independent role-playing projects, and TSR

Freelance artwork

Video game industry

Activism

Legacy

Personal life and death

Awards and honors

Dark Tower

Griffin Mountain

WarGames

Castle Greyhawk

Activism

Other recognition

Works

See also

Notes

References

External links

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