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Sande Chen

A Grammy and Writers Guild Award nominee, Sande Chen works as a writer and game designer at Writers Cabal. Her past game credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner TERMINUS. In 2003, she became the director of the non-profit, Girls in Games, Inc. She is the co-author of Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform and was a contributor to Secrets of the Game Business. She holds degrees from MIT, the London School of Economics, and USC School of Cinema-Television. She is an active member of the Women in Games International Steering Committee, the IGDA Writers SIG Steering Committee, and the New Media Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, west. In 2006, she was profiled on NextGen's list of the Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women.

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Writers Cabal http://writerscabal.com

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Career Summary

Clients include: CDProjekt, Atari, THQ, Vicarious Visions, Digital Tome

Published Game Credits

The Witcher, RPG, 2007

The Blackwell Legacy, adventure game, Wadjet Eye Games, 2006

Scrabble, multiplayer mobile game, JamDat, 2003, Top 10 mobile game

JamDat Trivia, released as Lord of the Rings Trivia, mobile game, JamDat, 2003

JamDat Horoscopes, mobile game, JamDat, 2003

Scooby Doo: The Motion Picture, action/RPG, THQ, 2002

Siege of Avalon, episodic medieval RPG, Digital Tome, 2001

Terminus, 1999 IGF Winner, space combat RPG, Vatical Entertainment, 2000

Related Honors

Grammy Nomination, Best Music Video – Long Form, 1995

Semifinalist, America’s College Video Competition, 1993-94

University of London Convocation Trust Vacation Award 1993

Outlook Student Writers Prize, 1993

Featured poet, Media Lab Poetry Series, 1992

Robert A. Boit Writing Prize, 1992

MIT Theatre Arts Playwright’s Workshop production, 1990

Harvard Prize Book Award, 1988

Publications

Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform, Course Technology PTR October 2005

“Online Business Models,” Chapter 1.6, Secrets of the Game Business, 2nd Edition, Charles River Media April 2005

“Online Business Models: Using the Net for Profit”, Chapter 2.7, Secrets of the Game Business, Charles River Media March 2003

Articles in: Houston Press, Boston Globe, Gamasutra, GameDev, Serious Games Source, Gamezebo

Session speaker at:

Game Developers Conference 2005, 2006, 2007

South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2007

XMedia Learning Games Conference, 2006

Women In Games International, Dallas, 2006

Women’s Game Conference 2005

Serious Games Summit, D.C. 2005

Writers Cabal Blog

Writers Cabal First Anniversary pictures

At GDC this year, Writers Cabal celebrated our first anniversary/blogiversary. We gathered at the Sugar Cafe in San Francisco to enjoy friends and food. We had much cake — red velvet, in case you’re hungry. Thanks for everyone who came. Hope to see the rest of you next year! Found t ...

Do games pass the Disney test?

You could learn a lot from Disney. I went to Disney Animation Studios last week to be brainwashed by Disney minions, and it worked. John Lasseter, the new studio head, has reinvigorated Disney with his business and creative sense. According to his minions, he insists every project coming out of Disn ...

Save the environment with game writers!

Happy Earth Day! You may think game writing has nothing to do with the environment, and you’d be right. Undaunted, I will now analyze whether you save the environment more by hiring a game writer in house versus outsourcing a writer, say, in another city. I will use http://www.carbonfootpri ...