Mark Darin Explained

Mark Darin
Occupation:	Game designer, graphic designer, writer

Mark Darin is an American video game designer and writer. He was the co-designer of , Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Tales of Monkey Island,^[1] and . 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 - , 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 - , co-designer (Telltale Games)
• 2011 - , design, script editing (Telltale Games)
• 2011 - , co-designer (The Calvary) (Telltale Games)
• 2012 - , 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 - , lead designer (Telltale Games)
• 2014 - Tales From the Borderlands, season lead (Telltale Games)
• 2015 - , co-designer (Telltale Games)
• 2016 - , co-designer (Telltale Games)
• 2017 - , co-designer (Telltale Games)
• 2018 - , 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)

External links

• • Telltale Games website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interview – Tales of Monkey Island interview . . December 19, 2011.
2. Web site: The Walking Dead's Faces of Death: Part 2 . . September 29, 2012.
3. Web site: Pinhead Games – Mark Darin . . December 19, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426062213/http://betax1.justadventure.com/articles/MarkDarwin_PinheadGames/MarkD.shtm . April 26, 2012 . mdy-all .
4. Web site: Best of PC E3 2009 Awards. IGN. June 11, 2009. December 5, 2011.
5. PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards . . January 2010.
6. Web site: Wii Best Adventure Game 2009 . IGN . 2009 . December 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202025/http://uk.bestof.ign.com/2009/wii/best-adventure-game.html . February 29, 2012 .
7. Web site: PC Best Adventure Game 2009 . IGN . 2009 . December 3, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111120054858/http://bestof.ign.com/2009/pc/best-adventure-game.html . November 20, 2011 .
8. Web site: Best Adventure of 2009. Adventure Gamers. 2009. December 2, 2011.
9. Web site: Best and Worst Video Games of 2009. Peter. Mai. OC Weekly. Village Voice Media. December 22, 2009. January 11, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100112104230/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/video-games---humor/the-2009-game-of-the-year/index.php. January 12, 2010. mdy-all.
10. Web site: GameSpy's Best of E3 2012 Awards . . July 14, 2011.