Adam Hines
Adam Hines is an American graphic novelist and a writer, designer, and director of video games. He is the creative director of Night School Studio, which he co-founded, and the author of Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One.
Career
Hines is known for the graphic novel Duncan the Wonder Dog, which won a Xeric Grant, the 2011 Lynd Ward [Graphic Novel Prize], and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics, and which came in first for the 2010 ComicsAlliance list of the year's best comics. The book was planned to be the first of a nine-book series.Hines worked at Telltale Games, where he was one of the writers for The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands.
In 2014, Hines and cousin Sean Krankel founded video game development company Night School Studio. He was the writer and the co-designer and co-director of Night School Studio's first game, Oxenfree, which was nominated for multiple awards, including "Best Narrative" at The [Game Awards 2016] and "Outstanding Achievement in Story" at the 20th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.
Hines was also the writer for other Night School Studio games Afterparty and Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n, and lead writer for Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing in 2017.
Personal life
Hines is from the suburbs of Chicago. As of 2014, he lived in northern California.List of works
Books
- Duncan the Wonder Dog Show One
Video games