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Andrew Leker is a
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who has worked primarily on
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s.


Career

In the early 1980s, Andrew Leker was a physics and applied mathematics undergraduate at
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, when he began imagining a roleplaying game set in a very alien realm; Jorune thus started as a variant of TSR's ''
Metamorphosis Alpha ''Metamorphosis Alpha'' is a science fiction role-playing game. It was created by James M. Ward and originally produced by TSR, the publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. It was the first science fiction role-playing game, published in July 1976 ...
''. Leker self-published the first edition of ''
SkyRealms of Jorune ''Skyrealms of Jorune'' is a science-fantasy role-playing game that was first published in 1984 through SkyRealms Publishing. The game is set on the fictional alien planet of Jorune above which float levitating islands. The second edition was p ...
'' (1984) through a new company, SkyRealms Publishing. By the late 1980s, Leker was out of college and moving on to a career in the computer gaming field. Leker founded a new company called
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in 1994. The company's first project was a ''Jorune''-based computer game called '' Alien Logic'' (1994), which was published by SSI. Later he produced '' Silencer'' (beta) and the IGF awarded ''
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'' (2005).


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