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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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with Bill Carroll
- 8 games with Kurt Boutin
- 8 games with Randy Lee
- 8 games with Elizabeth Mackney
- 8 games with Randy Buchholz
- 8 games with David Strang
- 7 games with Michael Craighead
- 7 games with Chris McQuinn
- 7 games with Steve Martin
- 6 games with Michael Romatelli
Companies
- 9 games with Atari, Inc.
- 8 games with Atari Europe S.A.S.U.
- 8 games with Namco Bandai Partners Pty Ltd.
- 6 games with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment...
- 5 games with Atari Interactive, Inc.
- 5 games with Computec Media GmbH
- 5 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with Bandai Namco Entertainment UK Ltd.
- 5 games with Atari Nordic AB
- 4 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
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