Swen Harder

Swen Harder 2017 in Essen

Swen Harder (* 1974 in Erbach , Odenwald ) is a German author of play books and role play literature. He received the German RPG Award for his debut work "Reiter der schwarzen Sonne" (2014) and "Metal Heroes - and the Fate of Rock" (2017) .

Life

Harder has been in the video game industry since 1998. Initially as an editor for various print magazines (including Mega Fun , SEGA Magazin , PlayStation Games, The Official PlayStation Magazine, play⁴ , Games Aktuell ). Since 2011 he has been employed by Nintendo of Europe as a game tester. He lives with his wife in the Odenwald in southern Hesse.

Harder's sister, Corinna Harder , is a German author of children's and youth literature .

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Game books

Rider of the Black Sun , October 2012 (hardcover from edition 7), Mantikore-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-961880-80-5
Metal Heroes - and the Fate of Rock , May 2016, Mantikore-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-939212-60-7

Game books as co-author

Bonus adventure Echoes of the Moonstone in Hunt for the Moonstone by Joe Dever , April 2016, Mantikore-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-945493-09-0

Games

Trading card game Final Stage (as a supplement to PlayStation Games magazine), January 2000, Computec Media
Poker for rockers and gamblers , card game, May 2016, Mantikore-Verlag

Awards

RPC Jury Award 2013, German RPG Award 2014 ("Best Rulebook") each for "Rider of the Black Sun"
RPC Most Promising Award 2014, Goldener Stephan 2016 ("Best Spielbuch"), German RPG Award 2017 ("Best Rulebook") each for "Metal Heroes - and the Fate of Rock"
RPC Jury Award 2017 for "The Hunt for the Moonstone" (as co-author)

Web links

Literature by and about Swen Harder in the catalog of the German National Library
playharder.de
metal-heroes.de

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Harder, Swen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author of play books and role play literature
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erbach , Odenwald

[1] German RPG Award. June 15, 2014, accessed June 16, 2016 .

[2] ttp://www.kultboy.com/magazin/3578/

[3] ttps://www.deutscher-rollenspielpreis.de/die-preistraeger/die-preistraeger-des-deutschen-rollenspielpreises-2014/

[4] ttps://nerds-gegen-stephan.de/archives/369-GOLDENER-STEPHAN-2016-Ausendung-Rollenspiele.html#extended

[5] ttps://www.deutscher-rollenspielpreis.de/die-preistraeger/die-preistraeger-des-deutschen-rollenspielpreises-2017/

[6] ttps://www.rpc-germany.org/award-2017/