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.

Hines is known for the graphic novel ''Duncan the Wonder Dog'' (2010), 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 (with Krankel) 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'' (co-developed with Telltale Games), 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.

Hines is from the suburbs of Chicago. As of 2014, he lived in northern California. Provided by Wikipedia