Will Hindmarch is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Will Hindmarch | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Career
editAtlas Games hired Will Hindmarch following the success of their d20 lines.[1]: 258 Atlas published some final d20 products in 2004 and when they cancelled the remainder of their d20 line, Hindmarch left Atlas.[1]: 258 Hindmarch edited a new Vampire product for White Wolf soon after the release of Vampire: The Requiem (2004).[1]: 229 Hindmarch wrote The Resurrectionists (2007) for Vampire: The Requiem, which was the first product to use the Storytelling Adventure System was .[1]: 229 Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball formed a new small press called Gameplaywright.[1]: 260
He was the lead designer on Till the Last Gasp (2023), a 2-player dueling game published by Critical Role's imprint Darrington Press.[2][3] Linda Codega, for Io9, commented that Till the Last Gasp blends "the strengths of the main designers" as Hindmarch's "tactical, number-forward design mentality meshes well with Alex Roberts' established success in designing immersive two-player games".[4]
Project: Dark
editIn 2014, Hindmarch created and funded a Kickstarter campaign for a role-playing game (RPG) titled Project: Dark. However, as of November 2024, the project has not been completed, with a lack of updates on the Kickstarter page has remained inactive, with no posts from Hindmarch since 2022.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Critical Role publisher announces two-player cinematic storytelling game". Dicebreaker. December 16, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ^ "Critical Role Announces New Board Game". ComicBook.com. December 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ^ Codega, Linda (March 17, 2023). "Till the Last Gasp Is a Two-Player Duel of Missteps and Drama". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ^ https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/172809/project-dark-core-rules
External links
edit- "Will Hindmarch :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on May 19, 2007.
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