Names of some of the St. Edmund Hall dormitory residents are references to actual or fictitious people, with their first and last names switched: "Doe, Grace" and "Nakimura, John" form John Doe (the standard "unidentified person" name) and Grace Nakimura (the female protagonist from the game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993) by the same writer); "Jensen, Roberta" and "Williams, Jane" form Jane Jensen (the writer of the game) and Roberta Williams (the author of many classic adventure games); "Curry, Claude" and "Verilhon, Tim" form Tim Curry (the actor who voiced Gabriel in "Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned") and Claude Verilhon (a.k.a. Rael, the leader of The Raelian Movement, a UFO-centered religious organization).