Sande Chen
Narrative Designer/Writer, The Writers Cabal

A game writer and designer, Sande Chen is the co-founder, along with Anne Toole, of Writers Cabal. Her past game writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus. For her most recent game, The Witcher , she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing. In 2006, she was profiled on Next Generation’s list of the Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women. She is the co-author of the book, Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform and was a contributor to Secrets of the Game Business. Sande graduated with a degree in writing and humanistic studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Afterwards, she specialized in screenwriting, earning a M.F.A. in cinema-television from the University of Southern California. In 1996, she was nominated for a Grammy in music video direction. She has been a speaker at the Game Developers Conference, Women's Game Conference, South by Southwest, and the Serious Games Summit D.C.

Panelist: Story vs. Story: Redefining Narrative and Player Engagement in MMOs, Thursday, 3:30 PM, Salon B