Jared Sorensen

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Jared Sorensen is one of the role playing game industry's indie game founding fathers.

Career

Jared Sorensen was a member of The Forge, and later became an indie publisher.[1]:407 Sorensen's supplement Schism for Sorceror was published as a PDF by Adept Press in 2001.[1]:407 Sorensen designed the humorous ghost-busting RPG InSpectres (2002).[1]:407 The Indie RPG Awards' Most Innovative Game award went to Sorensen's Lacuna (2006).[1]:424

His Memento Mori Theatricks site has been the host to over a dozen little games.

His most famous games include InSpectres, octaNe, and Lacuna Part I.

He was also the co-founder of Wicked Dead Brewing Company with John Wick.[1]:430

In September 2007, Jared was hired as a Senior Game Design at Hidden City Games. In 2010 he published FreeMarket, co-designed with Luke Crane and licensed through Hidden City Games. A year before, in 2009, he published the first of live-action text adventure game Parsely series, "Action Castle." It was followed by seven additional games. He now works at Plyfe as the VP of Games.

Jared Sorensen is also listed on the development team of 2012's Torchbearer (by Thor Olavsrud and Luke Crane, published by Burning Wheel).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. 

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