Mark Darin

Mark Darin
Occupation Game designer, graphic designer

Mark Darin is an American computer 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,[1]Tales of Monkey Island,[2] and Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent. He wrote the second episode of The Walking Dead, Starved for Help.[3]

Career

Mark Darin began his career creating the Nick Bounty series of freeware adventure games.[4] He joined Telltale Games as a lead designer and writer.

Recognition

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.[5] After release, it won the PC Gamer 2009 adventure game of the year,[6] was nominated for the IGN best adventure game of the year for PC and Wii,[7][8] won the Adventure Gamers Best Adventure of 2009,[9] and was named the "Best Series Revival" by OC Weekly.[10]

The second episode of The Walking Dead, which Mark Darin wrote, won the GameSpy E3 2012 award for "Best Adventure Game".[11]

Games

References

  1. "Interview: Mark Darin talks Strong Bad". N4G. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  2. "Interview – Tales of Monkey Island interview". bit-tech. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  3. "The Walking Dead's Faces of Death: Part 2". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  4. "Pinhead Games – Mark Darin". Just Adventure. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  5. "Best of PC E3 2009 Awards". IGN. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  6. "PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards". PC Gamer. January 2010.
  7. "Wii Best Adventure Game 2009". IGN. 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  8. "PC Best Adventure Game 2009". IGN. 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  9. "Best Adventure of 2009". Adventure Gamers. 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  10. Mai, Peter (22 December 2009). "Best and Worst Video Games of 2009". OC Weekly. Village Voice Media. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  11. "GameSpy's Best of E3 2012 Awards". GameSpy. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

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