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Bio for Colin Lim

Colin has been involved in the gaming industry since he was 15 years old. As a gamemaster or storyteller for the Dungeons & Dragons board game, he took to designing his own role playing game systems for leisure and played it among his friends. He has also been involved in collectible card games organized tournaments since 1997 and is familiar with the tournament environment.

Since he finished his stint as a Regular in the Singapore Air Force in 1999, Colin has been involved in the games industry by helping to establish one of the leading games hobby shop in Singapore and is the founder of the Settler's Café, Singapore's First and Original Board Games Café, which started off in 2003. Colin's role in Settler's Café is the development of operations, the creative programs and events as well as the overall running of the chain. He has since sold the business, and entered into the distribution and retail channel of the board games industry in Singapore by working with Paradigm Infinitum Pte Ltd.

Colin is now designing games under White Paladin Studios, for both the specialist niche market as well as the general market. With strong bonds with the other local games designers, his vision is to see the board games and card games industry in Singapore take off in a big way, with particular attention to games with an Asian origin designed by Asians. He currently has 15 game concepts and ideas, of which 3 are under consideration by international games publishers, at least two are currently being placed on game testing prior to development. He has 2 published games with the Singapore Police Force.

He is also working with Melchiz Pte Ltd to bring the use of board games into the educational sector, both by designing games and running games design workshops. His passion is to see teachers who are able to come up with creative games design suitable to engage students in the learning process, following the government's call for teach less and learn more.