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FreeMarket

It’s official. We shipped off the pre-orders (mas o menos a few stragglers) and have opened the online store for reals. Thanks to all who helped us launch; those who helped by pre-ordering, spending time and energy to help us playtest, edit and ship the game and for all the freemers out there on Earth [...]

GenCon 2010

Sorencrane will be at GenCon to launch FreeMarket and to give seminars on game design and development. Jared will be at the FreeMarket booth with FreeMarket boxed sets (and his other games) and Luke will be next door at the Burning Wheel booth. Thursday at 3:00 we’ll talk about our experiences designing a transhuman sci-fi game [...]

A review of Sorencrane’s design seminar

Sorencrane did a second run of our new “Game Design is Mind Control” seminar at Origins Game Fair this past weekend. It went off well and we spoke to a full room. Critical Hits blogger Dave Chalker wrote about it: I have to say, I expected the seminar to be much more focused on “indie” [...]

Origins Game Fair

Sorencrane’s Luke and Jared will be at Origins Game Fair June 24-27 to run demos of FreeMarket on Friday and Saturday morning at 10:00 am. Space is limited (4 users per session!) but you’re free to hang out and watch… and maybe you’ll get to hand out an attaboy. We’re also doing other events during the convention [...]

Welcome to sorencrane.com

Jared A Sorensen and Luke Crane first worked together as senior designers at Hidden City Games in Seattle, WA from 2007-2009, where they co-designed the FreeMarket RPG and designed casual games for the Bella Sara brand. They then went on to work with Propaganda Games as writers and quest designers for Pirates of the Caribbean: [...]