The Coles
video game designers
The Coles is a colloquial term referring to Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole, a husband and wife team (married 1982) who are both video game designers. Working together they designed the Quest for Glory series. They have also each designed games independently.
They formed Far Studio, which was the developer of Shannara and is now used for art and web development. They also formed a studio called Transolar Entertainment, which is the developer of the adventure- RPG hybrid Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption.
Corey Cole
Corey Stuart Cole (born 27 November 1955 in Santa Monica) is an American game designer, programmer, and writer who co-created various iterations of the SCI engine, co-designed the first four games in the Quest for Glory series with his wife, and designed and directed Castle of Dr. Brain.
Biography
Corey Cole is an avid Dungeons & Dragons fan, playing the game for 10 years before joining Sierra, and ultimately selling one role-playing module to Judges Guild. At that time he and his wife, Lori Cole published The Spell Book, a role-playing game newsletter. They ran fantasy campaigns for years that had a unique rule system that later became the core of their Quest for Glory games.
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