game designer
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who has worked primarily on
role-playing game
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Career
Andrew Leker was an undergraduate student in physics and applied mathematics at
UC Berkeley
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in the early 1980s, when he began to develop a roleplaying game with the very alien world of Jorune for a setting, which was initially a variant of ''
Metamorphosis Alpha
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'' by TSR. Leker started his own company SkyRealms Publishing and self-published his RPG '' SkyRealms of Jorune'' (1984). Leker had finished college by the late 1980s, and began a career in the computer gaming field. Leker founded a company called Mind Control Software in 1994. The first project from this new company was the computer game '' Alien Logic'' (1994), which was based on his world of ''Jorune'' and was published by SSI. Later he produced '' Silencer'' (beta), and the IGF awarded ''