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Andrew Leker

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Andrew Leker
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Andrew Leker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

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Andrew Leker was an undergraduate student in physics and applied mathematics at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s, when he began to develop a roleplaying game with the very alien world of Jorune for a setting, which was initially a variant of Metamorphosis Alpha by TSR.[1]: 201  Leker started his own company SkyRealms Publishing and self-published his RPG SkyRealms of Jorune (1984).[1]: 201  Leker had finished college by the late 1980s, and began a career in the computer gaming field.[1]: 202  Leker founded a company called Mind Control Software in 1994.[2] The first project from this new company was the computer game Alien Logic (1994), which was based on his world of Jorune and was published by SSI.[1]: 202  Later he produced Silencer (beta),[3] and the IGF awarded Oasis (2005).[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ "About Mind Control Software Principals / Advisors". Archived from the original on 2010-11-08.
  3. ^ "Resurrection Interview". IGN. 1999-06-29. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  4. ^ Leker, Andrew (2005-06-10). "Indie Postmortem: Mind Control's Oasis". Game Developer. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  5. ^ "The 10th Annual Independent Games Festival". 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
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