Banana Chan
Game designer and writer
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Banana Chan is a game designer and writer for tabletop role-playing games and board games. Chan and Sen-Foong Lim created Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (2021).[1][2][3][4] Chan has written for over twenty tabletop games, including the official Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021),[5] Dune: Adventures in the Imperium,[6] and the third edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill (2022).[7]
Banana Chan | |
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Banana Chan (2019) | |
| Occupation | game designer |
| Genre | tabletop role-playing games, board games |
Chan is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company Read/Write Memory, formerly known as Game and a Curry.[8]
Works
Roleplaying games and supplements
Banana Chan has written for many titles in tabletop games, both as a lead designer and as a hired freelancer.
- Writer and Designer: The Imposters (2018)[9]
- Writer: The North Sea Epilogues (2018)[10]
- Narrative Designer: Sea of Legends (2020)[11]
- Writer: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021)[5]
- Writer: Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (2021)[12]
- Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (2021)[2]
- Writer and Co-Designer: Questlings: RPG (2021)[13]
- Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous (2022)[14]
- Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: An Exquisite Crime (2022)[15]
- Writer: Pathfinder 2E Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall (2022)[16][17]
- Writer: Pathfinder 2E Dark Archive (2022)[18]
- Co-Designer: Alice is Missing: Silent Falls, Kickstarter edition (2023)[19]
- Writer, Co-Designer and Creator: Deimos Academy (2024)[20]
- Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: The Revenant Society: The Endless Loop Beneath the City (2024)[21]
- Writer, Designer and Creator: Forgery (2024)[22]
- Writer: Daggerheart (2025)[23]
- Writer, Designer and Creator: The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio (forthcoming)[24][25]
Kids on Bikes
Chan worked on multiple products in the Kids on Bikes series.
Board games
- Short Story Writer: Terror Below (2019)[30]
- Lead Haunt Writer, Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion (2020)[7]
- Writer: Warp’s Edge (2020)[31]
- Writer: Atheneum; Mystic Library (2020)
- Character Writer: Critical Care (2021) [32][33]
- Haunt Writer: Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition (2022)[7]
- Co-Designer: Mr. Lovenstein Presents: No Context (2023)[34]
- Co-Designer: Chucky (2024), the officially licensed board game for Child's Play[35]
Awards and nominations
Awards
In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game in the Golden Cobra Challenge for her live action roleplaying game They're Onto Me.[36] In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards.[37] The same year, she won three ENnies Awards: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (Silver Ennie for "Best Setting"), Questlings: RPG (Silver Ennie for "Best Family Game / Product"), and Dune – Adventures in the Imperium: Core Rulebook (Gold Ennie for "Best Writing").[38]
Nominations and Honorable Mentions
In 2015, Chan was given an Honorable Mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge for her live action roleplaying game The Other Place.[39] In 2022, Chan and Sen-Foong Lim, along with the Game and a Curry and Wet Ink Games teams, were nominated for ENnies in three categories for Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall: Best Setting (which they won), Best Production Value and Product of the Year.[13] The same year, Chan and Game and a Curry were also nominated for Best Family Game/Product for their game Questlings: RPG in collaboration with Letiman Games and Tim Devine.[13] In addition to the ENnies, Jiangshi was nominated for the 2022 Indie Game Developer Network's Indie Groundbreaker Awards for "Most Innovative."[40]