Jared Sorensen

aka: Jared A. Sorensen
Moby ID: 59208

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Jared A. Sorensen is a writer and game designer based in New York City. He started off his career in the game industry in 1997 as a software tester on the Petz series of games from PF Magic. Since then, he's worked for companies such as Mattel Interactive, Evite.com, EQuill Inc., LucasArts Entertainment, Atari, Tilted Mill Entertainment,Turbine, Inc., Hidden City Entertainment and Propaganda Studios.

He’s designed social networking and transmedia games for media companies, taught game design at NYC public schools, attended GenCon and other conventions as a Guest of Honor, given talks on game design and independent publishing in the United States and abroad and contributed games and essays to several websites and ‘zines including RPG.net, Flames Rising, and Daedalus.

Memento Mori Theatricks (MMT), was formed in 1997 to publish free gaming material on the web. Now, MMT is involved in commercial print and web publishing, as well as a design studio specializing in freelance writing for both traditional RPGs and computer/console games.

At the end of 2011 Jared released "Z-Ward" and "Z-Ward-X" after a highly successful Kickstarter raised over $7000 to fund these printed games.After freelancing for Facebook game companies Arkadium, Guerillapps and Rounds, Jared became the senior game designer at Plyfe.me.

Credited on 18 games

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Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited (2009, Windows) Design Team
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (2007, Windows) Design Team
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (2006, Windows) Designers
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile (2004, Windows) Additional Scenario Design
Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark (2003, Windows) Testers
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Conquests (2003, Windows) Testers
Pajama Sam: Life is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff (2003, Windows) Assistant Lead Tester
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide (2003, Windows) Tester
Unreal II: The Awakening (2003, Windows) Testers
Moonbase Commander (2002, Windows) Testers
Neverwinter Nights (2002, Windows) Testers
Blue's Clues Preschool (2002, Windows) Tester
Star Wars: Obi-Wan (2001, Xbox) Testing
Dogz 4 (1999, Windows) Art Production Ninja
Babyz: Your Virtual Bundle of Joy (1999, Windows) Production Assistant
Catz 4 (1999, Windows) Art Production Ninja
Catz II: Your Virtual Petz (1997, Windows) Testing
Dogz II: Your Virtual Petz (1997, Windows) Tester, Additional Wallpaper Artist

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