About Speaker

Sharang Biswas is a writer, award-winning game designer, and internationally exhibited artist. He is best known for his roleplaying game "Feast", which was awarded an IndieCade award and an IGDN award, and was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Following that, "Verdure", his solo game about witchcraft and salad-making, won an IGDN award and was exhibited both at the Flow Gallery and the Toronto Reference Library. Most recently, he won a Golden Cobra award for his LARP "The Stars Recall Our Passage" and was once again nominated for a "Most Innovative Game" award at the IGDN awards 2020. He is the co-editor of both "Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games" (Pelgrane Press) and "Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction" (Strange Horizons). He also frequently produces immersive theatre & interactive performances at a variety of venues. You can find Sharang's writing about games and interactivity in publications such as Eurogamer, First Person Scholar, and Unwinnable, and follow him on Twitter at @SharangBiswas.