Arnab Basu

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Arnab Basu is a product manager, game designer and a videogames producer. He has contributed to the Tomb Raider series for Crystal Dynamics[https://web.archive.org/web/20080207205346/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17204 Why Your Game Studio Should Practice 'Shared Design'], Gamasutra Article, February 5, 2008 on Tomb Raider: Anniversary{{ cite web |author=allgame.com |title=Credits for Anniversary |publisher=|date=|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=51602&tab=credits |accessdate=2011-06-19 }} and Tomb Raider: Underworld.{{ cite web |author=allgame.com |title=Credits for Underworld |publisher=|date=|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=47266&tab=credits |accessdate=2011-06-19 }} And later, at Eidos Interactive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.{{ cite web |author=allgame.com |title=Credits for Batman: Arkham Asylum|publisher=|date=|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=566505&tab=credits |accessdate=2011-06-19 }}

Arnab is a secretary on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Play,{{ cite web |author=instituteofplay.org |title= Bio page on Institute of Play website |publisher=|date=|url=http://www.instituteofplay.org/about/board/ |accessdate=2011-06-19 }} a not-for-profit which promotes game design as a non-traditional education tool. His focus has been enhancing primary education for kids around the world by harnessing new media and game design techniques to build flexible, on-demand learning ecologies.

He has given talks on game design at the Game Design Expo, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver' 2008[http://www.vfs.com/thisisvfs.php?section=press_room&news_id=523 Shared Design]. Jan 20, 2008 and the Game Developers Conference, Lyon, 2007[http://www.develop-online.net/news/28899/Lyon-GDC-Crystal-Dynamics-on-sharing-design-skills-across-teams Crystal Dynamics on sharing design skills across teams], December 3, 2007

Basu graduated with an MET degree from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon in 2006.[http://www.etc.cmu.edu/people/alumni/alumni.php?ret=2006 Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Profile], June 2006 He holds a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University[http://cmrit.cmredu.com/AlumniNews.aspx?NewsId=NE0004 Achiever's List, Alumni News, C.M.R. Institute of Technology], June 2005, Retrieved February 5, 2010