Dennis Detwiller (born July 12, 1972) is an American

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for

Hothead Games Hothead Games Inc. was an independent Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver. History The studio was founded in 2006 by Steve Bocska, Vlad Ceraldi and Joel DeYoung, all three of which were formerly employed by Radical Entertainment ...

and a

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designer, writer and artist.

Career

Dennis Detwiller started volunteering at

Pagan Publishing Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game fanzine, '' The Unspeakable Oath''. In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Missouri ...

after seeing an issue of ''

The Unspeakable Oath ''The Unspeakable Oath'' is a game magazine that was published by Pagan Publishing from 1990 to 2001, and later by Arc Dream Publishing starting in 2010. History John Tynes founded Pagan Publishing in 1990 in Columbia, Missouri with a volunteer s ...

'' magazine in 1991 and talking to

John Scott Tynes John Scott Tynes (born 1971) is an American writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as ''Unknown Armies'', '' Delta Green'', '' Puppetland'', and for his company, Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint, Pagan Publishing, T ...

. Tynes moved the company to Seattle in the mid-1990s, and Detwiller agreed to move there as well. Detwiller worked at Pagan as art director where he co-created the

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-winning game ''

Delta Green ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishi ...

'' in 1997 with Tynes and

Adam Scott Glancy Adam Scott Glancy is an author and game designer known for co-developing ''Delta Green'', as well as penning game settings, source books, short fiction, and essays related to the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Career Adam Scott Glancy, with Jo ...

;I'm Holding This Game For Ransom!

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, September 20, 2008, Tor.com Detwiller wrote a series of three

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s (1998–2000), and with Tynes and Glancy he expanded the setting in 1999 with ''Delta Green: Countdown''. Detwiller illustrated ''The Hills Rise Wild!'', which also won an Origins Award. Detwiller and

Greg Stolze Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American game designer, writer and novelist, whose work has mainly focused on writing for role-playing games and related intellectual properties. Career Stolze began his career writing role playing games professional ...

prepared their game '' Godlike'' which was intended to be published by Pagan Publishing, but as publication by Pagan was slowing down, Detwiller instead took it to his friends Hsin Chen and Aron Anderson, who created the company Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press (later known as EOS Press) in 2001 to publish the game. After the release of ''Godlike'' in 2002 Detwiller founded

Arc Dream Publishing Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing veteran Dennis Detwiller and editor Shane Ivey after their first roleplaying game '' Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 19 ...

with Shane Ivey. Detwiller and Ivey formed Arc Dream Publishing to produce supplements for ''Godlike'', and in 2003 Arc Dream acquired the licensing from Stolze to use his

One-Roll Engine The ''One-Roll Engine'' (or ''O.R.E.'') is a generic role-playing game system developed by Greg Stolze for the alternate history superhero roleplaying game '' Godlike.'' The system was expanded upon in the modern-day sequel, '' Wild Talents,'' as ...

(ORE) dice system for ''Godlike''. He has since worked on Wild Talents, a follow-up to ''Godlike'', and the free horror game NEMESIS. Detwiller and Ivey wrote ''Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity'' (2010) and also brought back ''The Unspeakable Oath'' in 2010. Following a successful kickstarter campaign, Arc Dream publishing announced a new Delta Green game to be released in 2016. In 2002, he left Seattle for Vancouver to work with

Radical Entertainment Radical Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver. The studio is best known for developing '' The Simpsons: Hit & Run'' (2003), '' Scarface: The World Is Yours'' (2006), ''Prototype'' (2009) and '' Prototype 2'' (2 ...

where he helped develop '' The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction'', '' Scarface: The World is Yours'' and ''

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''. In early 2009, he left

for

. In January 2016, he moved to

Monte Cook Monte Cook (born January 29, 1968) is an American professional tabletop role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Role-playing industry career Early years Cook has been a professional game d ...

Games as managing editor.

Works

Role-playing games

*''

'' (co-creator, with John Tynes and Adam Scott Glancy, 1997) *'' Godlike'' (creator, writer and artist, 2001) *'' Wild Talents'' (creator, writer and artist, 2006) *''Nemesis'' (creator, 2006) *''Unmasked'' (writer & designer, 2017) Unmasked at Monte Coook Games https://www.montecookgames.com/unmasked/

Video games

*'' The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction'' *'' Scarface: The World is Yours'' *''

'' *'' DeathSpank'' *''

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Fiction

*''Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy'' (2003) *''Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly'' (2011) *''Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies'' (2014)

References

External links

Dennis Detwiller
on the RPG DB *

Interviews

Dennis Detwiller Video Chat Interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Detwiller, Dennis American illustrators American comics artists American game artists American video game artists Artists from New York City Artists from Seattle Place of birth missing (living people) Artists from Vancouver American role-playing designers 1972 births Living people