Will Hindmarch

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Will Hindmarch
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Will Hindmarch is a game designer, who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Atlas 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

In 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ↑ "Critical Role publisher announces two-player cinematic storytelling game". Dicebreaker . December 16, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Critical Role Announces New Board Game". ComicBook.com . December 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  4. ↑ Codega, Linda (March 17, 2023). "Till the Last Gasp Is a Two-Player Duel of Missteps and Drama". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  5. ↑ https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/172809/project-dark-core-rules


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