Sande Chen

Teaches at Playcrafting NYC

A writer and game designer, Sande Chen has over 10 years experience in the industry. She studied science fiction and science writing at MIT. Her first published game was the epic space-combat RPG, Terminus, which won 2 awards at the 1999 Independent Games Festival. She was later nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild of America award in Videogame Writing for the dark fantasy RPG, The Witcher. She runs the WGAE Videogame Writers Caucus and is SIG leader of the IGDA Game Design SIG. Find her on Twitter @sandechen and on the blog,Game Design Aspect of the Month.

(6 Reviews)

Designing Games for Impact

Anonymous review on 7/6/2017

Waste of time and money. The teacher was completely unprepared. The class barely even touched on the supposed theme of "learning to design socially meaningful and artistic games" - the teacher instead wasted the first half hour on explaining extremely basic visual concepts like how curvy lines versus straight lines might make you feel... how circles are the opposite of triangles, etc., using a basic PowerPoint presentation she said she found somewhere online, and then showing us a couple of clips on YouTube that vaguely demonstrated some of these principles. Why? I've no idea. She did eventually begin to show us two examples of "serious games," but had to cut both demos short because her iPad was running low on battery. She did not provide meaningful commentary on either game, or mention what lessons might be learned.
Writing for Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Game Worlds

Reviewed by dio C. on 5/2/2017

Thank you for the insightful class and fun practices. Dio
Game Writing Portfolio Workout

Reviewed by Meredith D. on 10/18/2016
Game Writing Portfolio Workout

Reviewed by Samatha J. on 2/4/2016

Fantastic
Game Writing Portfolio Workout

Anonymous review on 2/3/2016

This is so far best one of the Playcrafting workshops. The teacher was funny, incredibly knowledgeable and shared the best insider's secrets!
Game Writing Portfolio Workout

Anonymous review on 10/21/2015

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