Mark Darin
American video game designer
Mark Darin is an American video game designer and writer. He was the co-designer of CSI: Hard Evidence , Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space , Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People , Tales of Monkey Island ,[1] and Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent . He wrote the second episode of The Walking Dead , Starved for Help .[2]
Career
Mark Darin began his career creating the Nick Bounty series of freeware adventure games .[3] He joined Telltale Games as a lead designer and writer.
Tales of Monkey Island , for which Mark Darin was the co-designer, was nominated for "best artistic design" and won for the award for "biggest surprise" at IGN 's Best of E3 2009 Awards.[4] After release, it won the PC Gamer 2009 adventure game of the year,[5] was nominated for the IGN best adventure game of the year for PC and Wii,[6] [7] won the Adventure Gamers Best Adventure of 2009,[8] and was named the "Best Series Revival" by OC Weekly .[9]
The second episode of The Walking Dead , which Mark Darin wrote, won the GameSpy E3 2012 award for "Best Adventure Game".[10]
Games
2008 - CSI: Hard Evidence , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2008 - Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2008 - Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2009 - Tales of Monkey Island , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2010 - Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2011 - Hector: Badge of Carnage , design, script editing (Telltale Games)
2011 - Jurassic Park: The Game , co-designer (The Calvary ) (Telltale Games)
2012 - Law & Order: Legacies , additional design (Telltale Games)
2012 - The Walking Dead , writer (Starved for Help ) (Telltale Games)
2013 - The Walking Dead: 400 Days , co-designer, co-writer (Telltale Games)
2014 - The Walking Dead: Season Two , lead designer (Telltale Games)
2014 - Tales From the Borderlands , season lead (Telltale Games)
2015 - Minecraft: Story Mode , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2016 - Batman: The Telltale Series , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2017 - Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2018 - The Walking Dead: The Final Season , co-designer (Telltale Games)
2018 - The Adventures of Nick and Willikins , animator, design consultant (Pinhead Games)
2020 - Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe , writer, director, designer (Pinhead Games)
References
^ "Interview – Tales of Monkey Island interview" . bit-tech . Retrieved December 19, 2011 .
^ "The Walking Dead's Faces of Death: Part 2" . Giant Bomb . Retrieved September 29, 2012 .
^ "Pinhead Games – Mark Darin" . Just Adventure . Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2011 .
^ "Best of PC E3 2009 Awards" . IGN. June 11, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2011 .
^ "PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards". PC Gamer . January 2010.
^ "Wii Best Adventure Game 2009" . IGN. 2009. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2011 .
^ "PC Best Adventure Game 2009" . IGN. 2009. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011 .
^ "Best Adventure of 2009" . Adventure Gamers. 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2011 .
^ Mai, Peter (December 22, 2009). "Best and Worst Video Games of 2009" . OC Weekly . Village Voice Media. Archived from the original on January 12, 2010. Retrieved January 11, 2010 .
^ "GameSpy's Best of E3 2012 Awards" . GameSpy . Retrieved July 14, 2011 .
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