Roleplaying and the Senses
Date:
May 7, 2022
7:10am (PST)
Duration:
0:50
Sharang Biswas
Roleplaying game ask us to engage our imagination in ways no other medium does: they ask us to create entire worlds in our heads and position ourselves within them, ask us to see, feel, touch, taste and smell delights of our own creation. How can game designers more thoughtfully engage the human senses? How can we conjure up experiences that allow ourselves to immerse fully within these fictional worlds?
Sharang Biswas (he) has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for roleplaying games, and has showcased interactive works at institutions such as The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. He has written for games such as Spire, Sea of Legends, Jiangshi: Blood on the Banquet Hall, Into the Motherlands, and Dungeons & Dragons Live. He is the co-editor of “Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games†(Pelgrane Press), and “Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction†(Strange Horizons).
Sharang Biswas (he) has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for roleplaying games, and has showcased interactive works at institutions such as The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. He has written for games such as Spire, Sea of Legends, Jiangshi: Blood on the Banquet Hall, Into the Motherlands, and Dungeons & Dragons Live. He is the co-editor of “Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games†(Pelgrane Press), and “Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction†(Strange Horizons).
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