Luke Crane (game designer)
American game designer
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Luke Crane is a game designer specializing in indie role-playing games.
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]