Head of Games at Kickstarter & Award Winning Game Designer, Luke Crane

Important note: It seems conventional on other podcasts I listen, to mention explicit language - in case your kids are around while you listen or something. There are a few F-words in this episode. I apologise I forgot to mention it in the intro to the episode.

This week on the podcast we geek out about tabletop roleplaying games (and a bunch of other stuff - don't feel left out if you don't play tabletop roleplaying games) with an awesome guest: Luke Crane. Luke had won multiple Origins Awards for Best Roleplaying Games in 2006 for his first system Burning Wheel and again in 2008 for MouseGuard. He also designed several other games such as Burning Empires, FreeMarket (with Jared Sorensen) and recently Torchbearer. Luke regularly talks about game design as a variety of events and conventions. Last but certainly not least, Luke is also the Head of Games for Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding website. He gets to support thriving game designers bring their projects to life thanks to the support of fans on the popular crowdfunding platform.

We had a fantastic conversation about the design voices in Luke's head, his lunar origins, authors intentions in game design, his latin studies, the Burning Wheel RPG system, his favourite games and movies, how games and tabletop games in particular are seeing a renaissance thanks to crowdfunding and more.

Enjoy!

Some of the Information mentioned in the episode:

Luke Crane's Games on the Burning Wheel website
Burning Wheel RPG Wikipedia Page
Follow Luke on Twitter
Kickstarter
Burning Empires RPG
Torchbearer RPG
MouseGuard comics
MouseGuard RPG
MouseGuard: Swords & Strongholds, Board Game
The Mystery of Moon Dust, The New Yorker
Spotlight, 2015 film
The Gallic Wars, Julius Cesar
NES Pro Wrestling
Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set (D&D)
Marvel Superheroes RPG
Paranoia RPG & Greg Costikyan
First Blood (Rambo)
McCabe & Mrs Miller, Robert Altman
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo
Deadwood (TV series)
Ursula K. LeGuin
Shadowrun RPG
Torchbearer RPG
John Wick interview & 7th Sea 2nd Edition Kickstarter
Exalted RPG on Kickstarter
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman
Podcast interview with Luke Crane on Narrative Control about game design
Podcast interview with Luke Crane on Designers & Discourses show, about MouseGuard particularly
Luke Crane at RopeCon 2014: RPGs Are Awesome (video)
Chamber LARP (Live action roleplay) 
Ample Hills Creamery, New York
Black Liquorice Ice Cream (recipe)
2016 SuperBowl commercials
Apple "1984" advert
Apple Jony Ive's interview on the Charlie Rose Show
PAX East, April 2016