Mark Darin
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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.