Andrew Leker
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

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

Career

In the early 1980s, Andrew Leker was a physics and applied mathematics undergraduate at UC Berkeley, when he began imagining a roleplaying game set in a very alien realm; Jorune thus started as a variant of TSR's Metamorphosis Alpha.[1]: 201  Leker self-published the first edition of SkyRealms of Jorune (1984) through a new company, SkyRealms Publishing.[1]: 201  By the late 1980s, Leker was out of college and moving on to a career in the computer gaming field.[1]: 202  Leker founded a new company called Mind Control Software in 1994.[2] The company's first project was a Jorune-based computer game called Alien Logic (1994), which was published by SSI.[1]: 202  Later he produced Silencer (beta)[3] and the IGF awarded Oasis (2005).[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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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