The Coles

The Coles
Known for	Quest for Glory
Spouse(s)	Lori Ann Cole, Corey Cole
Website	hero-u.net

The Coles is a colloquial term referring to Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole, a husband and wife team who are both game designers. While they are most well known working together designing the Quest for Glory series, both are notable separately for designing games and (in the case of programmer Corey Cole) game engines independently of each other.

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 upcoming adventure RPG Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption.

Corey Cole 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.

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.

Corey Cole started his programming career at Sierra On-line in 1988, porting the SCI engine to Atari ST. He later co-programmed new iterations the SCI engine for use in many Sierra games during much of his tenure at Sierra.

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