Luke Crane (game designer)

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Luke Crane is a game designer specializing in indie role-playing games.

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Career

Luke Crane designed the role-playing game The Burning Wheel (2002), which uses a six sided dice pool, and a "Beliefs" mechanic. [1] [2] Crane also designed the Burning Empires and Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game role-playing games. [3] Crane has crowdfunded several of his own game designs, including Torchbearer. [4] Crane designed the 2010 role-playing game Freemarket with Jared Sorensen. [5] Crane held an annual weekend gaming event in New York City called Burning Con. [6] Crane posted the question "Why are there so few lady game creators?" on Twitter in 2012, which started the hashtag #1reasonwhy, as hundreds of people shared their own stories. [7] [8] [9] [10] Crane also designed the 2015 Mouse Guard board game. [11]

Crane joined Kickstarter after he saw a surge in gaming campaigns on the website. [12] Crane became a community manager at Kickstarter, and persuaded his company to host the arcade game Killer Queen for its annual block party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [13] Crane was the head of games at Kickstarter, where he critiqued projects to determine their fan appeal. [14] [15] [16] [17] Crane later became the vice president head of community at Kickstarter. [18] Crane launched a campaign for The Perfect RPG in 2021, but quickly cancelled the campaign after receiving public backlash because of the inclusion of designer Adam Koebel as a contributor. [19] Crane resigned from Kickstarter after this controversy. [20]

Personal life

Luke Crane lived in the same apartment in New York City for many years with three of his friends that he met at New York University in 1991. [2] Crane managed the Manhattan Mayhem women's roller derby team. [3]

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