Sorensen/Crane

News & Updates

Sep

Toynbee Tiles ARG

Posted by admin 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.

Jul

Sorencrane at GenCon

Posted by admin at 2:54 pm

Conventions

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 Luke and Jared
(SEM1120296) at Marriott Indiana Ballroom C

FRIDAY
10:00a – “Mouse Guard: New Missions!” with Thor
(RPG1122186) at Crowne Plaza Pennsylvania Station A:5

2:00p – “Game Design Is Mind Control” with Luke and Jared
(SEM1120297) at Marriott Indiana Ballroom B

3:00p – “Parsely: Action Castle” with Jared
(SEM1120298) at Marriott Indiana Ballroom E

4:00p – “Mouse Guard: New Missions!” with Luke
(RPG1122187) at Crowne Plaza Pennsylvania Station A:5

SATURDAY
2:00p – “Parsely: Action Castle II—Return to Action Castle” with Jared
(SEM1120299) at Marriott Indiana Ballroom E

3:00p – “The Mad Taxonomy of Roleplaying Game Design” with Luke
(SEM1120300) at Marriott Indiana Ballroom D

Jun

Shortlist for 2011 Award Announced

Posted by admin 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 best that hobby-gaming has produced in the last twelve months. In alphabetical order, they are:

Catacombs, a board game from Sands of Time Games, by Ryan Amos, Marc Kelsy, and Aron West
The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game from Evil Hat Productions, by Leonard Balsera, Jim Butcher, Genevieve Cogman, Rob Donaghue, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, Ryan Macklin, Chad Underkoffler, and Clark Valentine
Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, a board game from Santa Ragione and Cranio Creations, by Mario Porpora, Pietro Righi Riva, Luca Francesco Rossi, and Nicolò Tedeschi
Fiasco, a roleplaying game from Bully Pulpit Games, by Jason Morningstar
Freemarket, a roleplaying game from Sorencrane MRCZ, by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen

The winner of the 2011 Award will be announced on Wednesday 3rd August, at the annual Diana Jones Award and Freelancer Party in Indianapolis, the unofficial start of the Gen Con Indy convention.

Mar

Fastaval

Posted by admin 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!

Jan

PAX East: Game Design is Mind Control

Posted by admin 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 [Game designer, Memento Mori Theatricks] and Luke Crane [Game designer, Burning Wheel]