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Sorensen/Crane

Sorensen/Crane is a game design and consulting firm offering a variety of services to the computer game, tabletop and media industries. Its founding members have over 20 years experience in world building and IP design, electronic games and tabletop games. Let us know your needs and we’ll create a unique and memorable experience that will promote your [...]

Resurrect Dead

We worked with the director, producers, promoters and subject of the documentary RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES to create an alternate-reality game set in New York City. The challenge was to produce a game using material from the film, in this case the titular Toynbee Tiles that first appeared in Philadelphia in [...]

FreeMarket

FreeMarket represented a major challenge for us: design an SF RPG based on an original IP, one with its roots in cyberpunk and transhumanist SF and in current technological advances and discoveries in fields as diverse as nanotechnology, neuroscience, sociology and astrophysics. It’s also one of the few RPGs in existence where the goal is [...]

BblWorld

Story and character development on a Facebook puzzle game, linking the fast-paced gameplay and “Bubbalooba” characters to an eco-conscious message about our oceans.

Family Games

Jared and Luke contributed essays to Family Games: The 100 Best. Jared’s piece was on Cat, a roleplaying game by John Wick and Luke’s piece was on the card game Jungle Speed by Asmodee Editions.

Recent Work

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From the Blog

Sep
01

Toynbee Tiles ARG

Posted by admin on September 1st, 2011 at 6:19 pm

NYC game designers Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen join forces with Merrill Sterritt of FilmPresence.com to bring you the Resurrect Dead Alternate Reality Game. Read more (and an interview with Luke, Jared and Merrill) at NerdNYC.com. Resurrect Dead Trailer from Resurrect Dead on Vimeo.

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Jul
27

Sorencrane at GenCon

Posted by admin on July 27th, 2011 at 2:54 pm

SorenCrane will be attending GenCon 2011 in Indianapolis. We’ll have copies of the FreeMarket boxed set as well as new offerings Burning Wheel Gold and Parsely: Blackboard Jungle at Booth #311. As always, our schedule is full of games and seminars. We invite you to join us! THURSDAY 4:00p – “Dirty Secrets of Game Design” with [...]

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Jun
16

Shortlist for 2011 Award Announced

Posted by admin on June 16th, 2011 at 2:51 am

Three RPGs and two board games vie for hobby gaming’s most exclusive trophy The committee of the Diana Jones Award is happy to announce the shortlist for its 2011 award. Boiled down from a longlist of 22 nominees, this year the list contains five candidates that in the opinion of the committee exemplify the very [...]

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Mar
25

Fastaval

Posted by admin on March 25th, 2011 at 12:52 pm

It’s official! Sorensen/Crane will be in Denmark this April as guests at Fastaval. We’re also planning to visit Gothenberg and Stockholm so let us know if you want us to stop by your friendly neighborhood game store!  

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Jan
19

PAX East: Game Design is Mind Control

Posted by admin on January 19th, 2011 at 2:03 pm

PAX East! Friday – 6:30 P.M – Cat Theatre Title: Game Design is Mind Control Type: Panel Description: Games are an art form that induces people to irrational behavior that they would not otherwise undertake. Come and watch Luke and Jared make fools of themselves as they try to prove this point. Panelists: Jared Sorensen [...]

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