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
Occupation(s)	Game 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

• 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)