Mike Tinney is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Mike Tinney was running his own

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s and working as one of the editors for

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's ''

Mind's Eye Theatre ''Mind's Eye Theatre'' is a live action role-playing game (LARP) based on the White Wolf World of Darkness universe, sharing a theme and setting with the table-top role-playing game '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' and with two revisions, '' Vampire ...

'' when he became the line manager for ''Mind's Eye Theatre''. Tinney later became Vice President of Licensing and Marketing for White Wolf, and based on his proposal White Wolf started the "ArtHaus" imprint in the late 1990s which was intended to produce more affordable game supplements. Tinney was one of the contributors to the ''Creature Collection'' from White Wolf's Sword & Sorcery imprint. In 2002

Steve Wieck Steve Wieck (also credited as Stephan Wieck) is best known as one of the founders of the publishing company, White Wolf, Inc. He is also one of the original writers of ''Mage: The Ascension''. Wieck is a co-founder of DriveThruRPG which later merg ...

stepped down as President of White Wolf, and Tinney became the new President; under Tinney, White Wolf underwent big changes, starting with significant alternations and updates to the

World of Darkness ''World of Darkness'' is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991–1995, with '' Vampire: The Masquerade'', '' Werewolf: The Apoca ...

. Tinney was the co-developer of ''Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game'' (1994). On 11 November 2006,

CCP Games CCP hf., doing business as CCP Games, is an Icelandic video game developer based in Reykjavík. Novator Partners and General Catalyst had previously collectively owned a majority stake in the company, and in September 2018, CCP was acquired by ...

and White Wolf jointly announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the ''Eve Online Fanfest 2006''. White Wolf Publishing became a wholly owned independent subsidiary of CCP with Tinney remaining as the president of CCP North America , White Wolf, until he left in 2012 to join a games-health startup.

References

External links

Mike Tinney: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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