Peter Cakebread is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

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Career

Peter Cakebread formed the game company

Cakebread & Walton Cakebread & Walton is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games. Best known for its ''Clockwork & Chivalry'', ''Renaissance System'' and '' Abney Park's Airship Pirates'' games, they also offer titles covering a range of l ...

with Ken Walton. They were licensees for the '' RuneQuest II'' system published by

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

which they were able to use to design the '' Clockwork & Chivalry'' alternate history for the

English Civil War The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...

. Cakebread has worked on numerous games and systems including ''Clockwork & Chivalry'', '' Airship Pirates'', '' Dark Streets'', the ''Renaissance'' d100 rules, ''Pirates & Dragons'' and the popular ''One Dice'' rules. Cakebread has also written the novel ''The Alchemist's Revenge'' (2013), and was the lead author of the mystery novel ''The Morecambe Medium'' (2014).

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