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, 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 freeware adventure games. 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. After release, it won the PC Gamer 2009 adventure game of the year, was nominated for the IGN best adventure game of the year for PC and Wii, won the Adventure Gamers Best Adventure of 2009, and was named the "Best Series Revival" by OC Weekly.
The second episode of The Walking Dead, which Mark Darin wrote, won the GameSpy E3 2012 award for "Best Adventure Game".

Games

2008 - CSI: Hard Evidence, co-designer
2008 - Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, co-designer
2008 - Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, co-designer
2009 - Tales of Monkey Island, co-designer
2010 - Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent, co-designer
2011 - Hector: Badge of Carnage, design, script editing
2011 - Jurassic Park: The Game, co-designer
2012 - Law & Order: Legacies, additional design
2012 - The Walking Dead, writer
2013 - The Walking Dead: 400 Days, co-designer, co-writer
2014 - The Walking Dead: Season Two, lead designer
2014 - Tales From the Borderlands, season lead
2015 - Minecraft: Story Mode, co-designer
2016 - Batman: The Telltale Series, co-designer
2017 - Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series, co-designer
2018 - The Walking Dead: The Final Season, co-designer
2018 - The Adventures of Nick and Willikins, animator, design consultant
2020 - Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe, writer, director, designer