Arnab Basu is a

product manager A product manager (PM) is a professional role that is responsible for the development of products for an organization, known as the practice of product management. Product managers own the product strategy behind a product (physical or digital), ...

game design Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

er and a videogames producer. He has contributed to the Tomb Raider series for

Crystal Dynamics Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California and part of Embracer Group. The studio developed the '' Gex'', ''Legacy of Kain'', and ''Tomb Raider'' series. Founded in 1992 by Madeline Canepa, Judy L ...

Why Your Game Studio Should Practice 'Shared Design'
Gamasutra Article, February 5, 2008 on '' Tomb Raider: Anniversary'' and '' Tomb Raider: Underworld''. And later, at Eidos Interactive for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Arnab is a secretary on the Board of Directors for the

Institute of Play The Institute of Play (IOP) is a 501(c)(3) corporation founded in 2007. Based out of New York City, the institute offers school design services, educator programs, game and curriculum design, and corporate trainings / workshops. Their initial wo ...

, 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 Film School (VFS) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around Downtown Vancouver ...

Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

' 2008Shared Design
Jan 20, 2008 and the

Game Developers Conference The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival, and a variety of tuto ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

, 2007Crystal Dynamics on sharing design skills across teams
December 3, 2007 Basu graduated with an MET degree from the Entertainment Technology Center at

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in 2006.Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Profile
June 2006 He holds a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from

Visvesvaraya Technological University Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), previously spelled Visveswaraiah Technological University, is a collegiate public state university in Belagavi, Karnataka established by the Government of Karnataka. All colleges in the State of ...

Achiever's List, Alumni News, C.M.R. Institute of Technology
June 2005, Retrieved February 5, 2010

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Official Website
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