Mark Darin is an American

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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 ''Tales of Monkey Island'' is a 2009 graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games under license from LucasArts. It is the fifth game in the '' Monkey Island'' series, released nearly a decade after the previous installment, '' Escap ...

'', and '' Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent''. He wrote the second episode of ''The Walking Dead'', ''Starved for Help''.

Career

Mark Darin began his career creating the Nick Bounty series of

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. He joined

Telltale Games Telltale Incorporated (trade name: Telltale Games) was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California. The company was founded in July 2004 by former LucasArts developers Kevin Bruner, Dan Connors and Troy Molander, following ...

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 ''IGN'' is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former e ...

's Best of E3 2009 Awards. After release, it won the

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2009 adventure game of the year, was nominated for the

best adventure game of the year for PC and Wii, won the

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Best Adventure of 2009, and was named the "Best Series Revival" by ''

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''. The second episode of ''The Walking Dead'', which Mark Darin wrote, won the

GameSpy GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas. After the release of a multiplayer server browser for Quake, QSpy, Surfas licensed the software under the GameS ...

E3 2012 The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012 (E3 2012) was the 18th E3 held. The event took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. It began on June 5, 2012, and ended on June 7, 2012, with 45,700 total attendees. It was ...

award for "Best Adventure Game".

Games

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

- '' CSI: Hard Evidence'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

- '' Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

- '' Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

- ''

'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

- '' Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

- '' Hector: Badge of Carnage'', design, script editing (Telltale Games) *

- '' Jurassic Park: The Game'', co-designer (''The Calvary'') (Telltale Games) *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

- '' Law & Order: Legacies'', additional design (Telltale Games) *

- '' The Walking Dead'', writer (''Starved for Help'') (Telltale Games) *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

- '' The Walking Dead: 400 Days'', co-designer, co-writer (Telltale Games) *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

- '' The Walking Dead: Season Two'', lead designer (Telltale Games) *

- ''

Tales From the Borderlands ''Tales from the Borderlands'' is an episodic interactive comedy graphic adventure sci-fi video game based on the '' Borderlands'' series. It was developed by Telltale Games under license from Gearbox Software, the developer of the ''Borderland ...

'', season lead (Telltale Games) *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

- '' Minecraft: Story Mode'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

- '' Batman: The Telltale Series'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

- '' Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

- '' The Walking Dead: The Final Season'', co-designer (Telltale Games) *

- ''The Adventures of Nick and Willikins'', animator, design consultant (Pinhead Games) *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

- ''Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe'', writer, director, designer (Pinhead Games)

References

External links

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Telltale Games website
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