between an alcoholic Indiana Jones and Deckard from Blade Runner". Radio theater When plans for a new game fell through, Chris Jones and Aaron Conners, produced a series of audio dramas in 2001, to continue the storyline. The radio theater stars several of the original characters and voices from the games, including Jones as Tex Murphy. They were financed out-of-pocket by the creators and released for free as digital downloads. These episodes continue to be available through the unofficial Tex Murphy website. A new series of six more episodes were made to accompany the then-upcoming Project Fedora as a reward for qualifying backers. Novelizations Aaron Conners has published novelizations of three Tex Murphy titles, as well as an original follow-up, which will serve as the basis for the upcoming Tex Murphy and the Poisoned Pawn, currently in development by Chaotic Fusion. Under a Killing Moon (1996) The Pandora Directive (1995) Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure (2014) Tex Murphy and the Poisoned Pawn (2021) The novels follow the same story as the games but differ somewhat in detail. The Poisoned Pawn incorporates elements of Overseer (itself based on Mean Streets) but serves to retcon certain elements. Conners has announced two more novels following The Poisoned Pawn. Connors claims that "one will pick up from the end of The Pandora Directive and reveal the exciting events that happened prior to Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect. The other will continue the story that comes after, leading up to Tex's last ride into the sunset". History The Tex Murphy character was first created for the amateur film Plan 10 from Outer Space, created by Chris Jones and other members of Access Software. Following the development of their flight game Echelon they wanted to create another 3D flight game that cast players in the role of the futuristic private investigator. Eventually, adventure and action elements emerged, eclipsing the still-present flight sim sequences. Mean Streets would be noted for its use of high-color VGA graphics, digitized actors, and for its "Real Sound" technology, which allowed waveforms to be played back on the PC's speaker without the use of a sound card. For the sequel, Access developed a more traditional point and click adventure game, Martian Memorandum. Like Mean Streets it featured digitized actors, including Chris Jones as Tex, and featured a great deal more digitized voice. Martian Memorandum also introduced dialog trees to the