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Sharang Biswas is an Indian American designer and writer of tabletop role-playing games, live action role-playing games, and interactive fiction, as well as a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. In addition, Biswas works as a games journalist. Biswas has won an IndieCade award, four ENNIE Awards, and two Indie Game Developer Network awards.

Games

Biswas has won four ENNIE Awards for game writing: the 2024 Silver for "Best RPG Related Product" for KOBOLD Guide to Roleplaying,[1] the 2023 Gold for "Best Family Game/Product" and "Best Rules" for Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, and the 2023 Judges' Spotlight Award for Moonlight on Roseville Beach: A Queer Game of Disco and Cosmic Horror.[2] Biswas won the 2020 "Most Innovative" Indie Game Developer Network Award for Feast and the 2019 "Most Innovative" award for Verdure.[3] Biswas was co-editor with Lucian Kahn for the LARP anthology Honey & Hot Wax, which was nominated for an IndieCade award in 2020.[4] He won the 2017 IndieCade "Dark Horse" award for Feast.[5]

In addition to Biswas' award-winning work, he wrote a game for Simon & Schuster's The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book.[6] He was on the writing teams for Tanya DePass's game Into the Motherlands[7] and Green Ronin Publishing's Cthulhu Awakens.[8]

Games journalism

Biswas has been a frequent contributor to Eurogamer.[9][10][11][12] He has also written articles for Kill Screen[13] and Dicebreaker.[14] He was a judge for the 2022 Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards.[15]

Short stories

Biswas' short stories have been published in Lightspeed[16] and Nightmare Magazine.[17]

Talks

Biswas was a special guest at Flame Con 2024.[18] He gave a talk at the Game Developers Conference about portrayals of sex in video games.[19]

Academia

Biswas was a visiting film and media studies professor at Dartmouth College, where he co-organized a collaborative speculative fiction project between authors and Dartmouth science faculty.[20]

References

  1. ^ "2024 Winners & Nominees – ENNIE Awards". Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  2. ^ "2023 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards". Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  3. ^ "Previous Award Winners". Indie Game Developer Network. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  4. ^ Chan, Banana (2020-12-21). "Games of the Year 2020: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall co-creator Banana Chan". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  5. ^ "Feast | IndieCade - International Festival of Independent Games". web.archive.org. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  6. ^ Elderkin, Beth (2020-11-05). "Join a Teenage Bird Gang in This Exclusive Game Reveal From The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  7. ^ Carter, Chase (2021-05-20). "Tabletop RPG Into the Mother Lands is now on Kickstarter". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  8. ^ Carter, Chase (2022-01-20). "Green Ronin's new RPG Cthulhu Awakens will attempt to transcend cosmic horror's baked-in bigotry". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  9. ^ Biswas, Sharang (2024-07-05). "From Mediterranea Inferno to Baldur's Gate 3: the queer ecstasy of monster-loving". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  10. ^ Biswas, Sharang (2021-06-29). "Hunky Dads & Voxel Flags - Video Games and Our Queer Future". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  11. ^ "Fanfiction, fan-mods, and the joy of gay fantasy". Eurogamer.net. 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  12. ^ Torner, Evan (2021-06-30). "Finding Queerness in Larp". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  13. ^ Biswas, Sharang (2016-03-01). "Videogames and the art of spatial storytelling". Kill Screen - Previously. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  14. ^ Biswas, Sharang (2021-02-17). "Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  15. ^ Meehan, Alex (2022-11-24). "Meet the judges for the Tabletop Awards 2022". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  16. ^ "Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Cast of Wonders, Lightspeed, and Hexagon". Locus Online. 2024-06-08. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  17. ^ "Paula Guran Reviews Nightmare, Heartlines Spec, and The Deadlands". Locus Online. 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  18. ^ Nye, Annmarie (2024-07-05). "Sharang Biswas - Special Guest". The World's Largest Queer Comic Con. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  19. ^ Farokhmanesh, Megan (March 23, 2022). "How developers are rethinking sex in video games". Axios. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  20. ^ "Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project considers next steps for the genre". Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project considers next steps for the genre - The Dartmouth. Retrieved 2024-09-26.


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