Ragnar Tørnquist (born 31 July 1970) is a Norwegian video game designer and writer.

He has been working for Funcom in Oslo since 1994, and founded his own studio Red Thread Games in November 2012.

Tørnquist studied art, history and English at St Clare's, a school in Oxford, from 1987 to 1989.

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.

[4] In 1994, he returned to Oslo, Norway and started working for Funcom as producer, designer, writer, and level-editor of the video game adaptation of Casper.