2025 Guests of Honour

Sharang Biswas has won two IGDN awards, four Ennie Awards, an IndieCade award, and a Golden Cobra award for roleplaying games. He has showcased interactive works at institutions such as The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Toronto Reference Library, and The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. He has worked on games such as "Avatar: Legends", "Pathfinder", "Vampire: The Masquerade", "Spire: The City Must Fall", "Moonlight on Roseville Beach", "Jiangshi: Blood on the Banquet Hall", and "Dungeons & Dragons Live", as well as boardgames including "Holi: Festival of Color", "Mad Science Foundation" and "Sea of Legends". His fiction and poetry has appeared in Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, and more. He is the co-editor of "Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games" (Pelgrane Press). Sharang currently teaches games at the NYU Game Center and Fordham University.

Bill Benham started playing Dungeons & Dragons as a kid and knew he would make games one day. “One Day” was the summer of 2018 when he joined the Wizards of the Coast as a producer for D&D. Before joining Wizards, Bill served 20 years in the Army, earned a master’s in healthcare administration, and was a clinic manager in the public sector. Besides work, he fills his days finding new games, searching for new places to eat in Seattle, WA, and watching horror movies with his loyal French bulldog, Kizzy.