Ragnar Tørnquist was born in 1970 in Norway. He studied art, history and English at St. Clare's, Oxford from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990, he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo. After that, from 1990 to 1993 he attended the Undergraduate Film and Television department at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
After graduation at NYU, he spent a year working for a small game developer called Herbipolis as an artist, animator, co-designer and assistant producer.
In 1994, he returned to Oslo, Norway, and started working for Funcom, an independent developer and publisher of computer video games.
Now he is a game designer and author. He and his company reached major success with The Longest Journey (1999), a highly acclaimed adventure game. He continues designing, writing and producing video games, and he has written a movie script that is yet to be picked up by a movie production company.
