Andrew Leker Explained

Andrew Leker
Nationality:American
Occupation:Game designer

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

Career

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] Leker started his own company SkyRealms Publishing and self-published his RPG SkyRealms of Jorune (1984).[1] Leker had finished college by the late 1980s, and began a career in the computer gaming field.[1] 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] Later he produced Silencer (beta),[3] and the IGF awarded Oasis (2005).[4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. Web site: About Mind Control Software Principals / Advisors . https://web.archive.org/web/20101108043113/http://www.mind-control.com/about.php?aboutPage=4 . 2010-11-08 . dead .
  3. Web site: 1999-06-29 . Resurrection Interview . 2022-06-26 . IGN . en.
  4. Web site: Leker . Andrew . 2005-06-10 . Indie Postmortem: Mind Control's Oasis . 2022-06-26 . Game Developer . en.
  5. Web site: 2007-10-09 . The 10th Annual Independent Games Festival . 2022-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071009222247/https://igf.com/2004finalistswinners.html . 9 October 2007 . dead.