Banana Chan Explained

Banana Chan
Occupation:game designer
Genre:tabletop role-playing games, board games

Banana Chan is a Chinese Canadian game designer and writer.

Career

Chan has written for many games, such as the third edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill (2022)[1] and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021).[2] Chan and Sen-Foong Lim wrote and designed , which was published in 2021, and was covered by outlets such as Huffington Post,[3] Forbes,[4] and Dicebreaker.[5] [6] She is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company Game and a Curry.[7]

Awards and nominations

Awards

In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game for her live action roleplaying game They’re Onto Me.[8] In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards.[9] The same year, she won three ENnies Awards: (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").[10]

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.[11] 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.[12] 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. In addition to the ENnies, Jiangshi was nominated for the 2022 Indie Game Developer Network's Indie Groundbreaker Awards for "Most Innovative."[13]

Bibliography

Roleplaying games and supplements

Banana Chan is a freelance writer and game designer who has written for many titles in tabletop games.

Kids on Bikes

Chan worked on multiple products in the Kids on Bikes series.

Board games

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition . 2022-07-11 . BoardGameGeek . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2021-02-23 . Dungeons & Dragons returns to an iconic setting with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  3. Web site: 2021-05-05 . This Board Game Uses Vampires To Fight Anti-Asian Racism . 2022-07-11 . HuffPost . en.
  4. Web site: Wieland . Rob . Save The World And Your Family Restaurant With This New RPG . 2022-07-11 . Forbes . en.
  5. Web site: 2020-07-16 . Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall is an RPG about cooking and vampires . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  6. Web site: 2021-02-17 . Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  7. Web site: 2016-10-20 . Home - Game and a Curry, LLC . 2023-02-07 . en-US.
  8. Web site: Golden Cobra Challenge . 2022-07-11 . www.goldencobra.org.
  9. Web site: Tabletop Awards 2022 . 2023-03-25 . Dicebreaker . en.
  10. Web site: 2022-08-14 . 2022 Results – ENNIE Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814205930/https://ennie-awards.com/2022-results/ . 2022-08-14 . 2023-02-09.
  11. Web site: Golden Cobra Challenge . 2022-07-11 . www.goldencobra.org.
  12. Web site: 2022 Nominations – ENNIE Awards . 2022-07-11 . en-US.
  13. Web site: Indie Groundbreakers Awards . 2023-03-28 . Indie Game Developer Network . en-US.
  14. Web site: The Imposters - Ginger Goat DriveThruRPG.com . 2022-07-11 . www.drivethrurpg.com . en.
  15. Web site: The North Sea Epilogues RPG + GM Screen . 2022-07-11 . Garphill Games . en-NZ.
  16. Web site: Sea of Legends . 2022-07-11 . BoardGameGeek . en-US.
  17. Web site: Dune Roleplaying Game . 2022-07-11 . Modiphius Entertainment . en.
  18. Web site: 2021-09-15 . Jiangshi co-creator's next game is a LARPG anthology inspired by Get Out and Hannibal . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  19. Web site: 2021-10-27 . Exquisite Crime equal parts paranormal whodunnit RPG and goofy group doodling . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  20. Web site: Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall . 2022-07-11 . RPGGeek . en-US.
  21. Web site: paizo.com - Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall. 2023-02-09. paizo.com.
  22. Web site: paizo.com - Pathfinder Dark Archive . 2022-07-11 . paizo.com.
  23. Web site: 2021-06-23 . Deimos Academy is a Stephen King inspired horror RPG played in a colouring-in book . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  24. Web site: 2022-01-23 . Jiangshi designers' next roleplaying game is like a horror version of Russian Doll . 2022-07-28 . Dicebreaker . en.
  25. Web site: Kids on Bikes: Deluxe Edition . 2022-07-11 . RPGGeek . en-US.
  26. Web site: Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday July, 2020 - Grannies on Scooters . 2022-07-11 . RPGGeek . en-US.
  27. Web site: Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday August, 2020 - Doggos on Skateboards . 2022-07-11 . RPGGeek . en-US.
  28. Web site: Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday August, 2020 - Anacondas on Airliners . 2022-07-11 . RPGGeek . en-US.
  29. Web site: 2020-05-15 . Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid and Clank! publisher holding its first online convention, Renegade Con Virtual, next month . 2022-07-11 . Dicebreaker . en.
  30. Web site: Warp's Edge . 2022-07-11 . Renegade Game Studios . en.
  31. Web site: Critical Care simulates the hospital ICU in a new board game . 23 September 2021 .
  32. Web site: Team .
  33. Web site: 2023-05-30 . Review of Mr Lovenstein Presents: No Context, a new party game about making connections . 2023-07-28 . Tabletop Bellhop . en.

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