Will Hindmarch is a

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who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Atlas Games Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its founder and current president is John Nephew. History When Atlas Games did not have the finances to publish '' On the Edge'' (1994), they partnered with J ...

brought on Will Hindmarch as a new employee following the success of their d20 lines. Atlas published a few final d20 products in 2004 and when they cancelled the rest of their d20 line, Hindmarch left Atlas. A new ''Vampire'' product line edited by Hindmarch for

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followed soon after the release of '' Vampire: The Requiem'' (2004). The first product to use the Storytelling Adventure System was Hindmarch's ''The Resurrectionists'' (2007) for ''Vampire: The Requiem''. Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball formed a new small press called Gameplaywright. He was the lead designer on ''Till the Last Gasp'' (2023), a 2-player dueling game published by ''

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s imprint

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. Linda Codega, for ''

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'', 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".

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* Atlas Games people Living people Role-playing game designers White Wolf game designers Year of birth missing (living people) {{rpg-bio-stub