Mark Darin

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]

Mark Darin
OccupationGame designer, graphic designer, writer

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

  • 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

  1. "Interview – Tales of Monkey Island interview". bit-tech. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  2. "The Walking Dead's Faces of Death: Part 2". Giant Bomb. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  3. "Pinhead Games – Mark Darin". Just Adventure. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  4. "Best of PC E3 2009 Awards". IGN. June 11, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  5. "PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards". PC Gamer. January 2010.
  6. "Wii Best Adventure Game 2009". IGN. 2009. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  7. "PC Best Adventure Game 2009". IGN. 2009. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
  8. "Best Adventure of 2009". Adventure Gamers. 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  9. 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.
  10. "GameSpy's Best of E3 2012 Awards". GameSpy. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
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