Charles "Chuck" Jordan is an American

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, writer, and

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. He co-wrote ''

The Curse of Monkey Island ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1997. A sequel to 1991's '' Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge,'' it is the third game in the ''Monkey Island'' series. It follows protagonist Guybrush ...

'', wrote three episodes of ''

Sam & Max Save the World ''Sam & Max Save the World'' is a graphic adventure game, graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. The game was originally released as ''Sam & Max: Season One'' before being renamed in early 2009. ''Save the World'' was develope ...

'', was the lead writer and co-designer of '' Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space'', designed and co-wrote two episodes of ''

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People ''Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People'' is an episodic graphic adventure developed by Telltale Games and based on the ''Homestar Runner'' web cartoon, with Strong Bad as the lead character. A total of five episodes were released for Mi ...

'', and was the designer of '' Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: The Penal Zone'', as well as season lead designer for the '' Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse'' season on the whole.

Career

Chuck Jordan began his career at

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as a programmer and co-writer of ''

'' in 1997. After working on

Grim Fandango ''Grim Fandango'' is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on Rendering (computer graphics), ...

as a script programmer, he left the company. He later joined Infinite Machine, a start-up company founded by LucasArts alumni, where he worked on the initial design of their games, including the cancelled ''Sam & Max Plunge Through Space''. After Infinite Machine closed, he joined

Telltale Games Telltale Incorporated (trade name: Telltale Games) was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California. The company was founded in July 2004 by former LucasArts developers Kevin Bruner, Dan Connors and Troy Molander, following ...

as a writer and designer in 2007. While at Telltale, he co-wrote several episodes for their

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seasons. In 2008, he was the lead writer and co-designer of ''Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space''. He also wrote and co-directed the first episode of that season, ''Penal Zone'', and wrote and designed the finale ''The City That Dares Not Sleep''. He finished his tenure at Telltale Games as season lead designer of ''Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse'' in 2010. He also wrote ''

Puzzle Agent 2 ''Puzzle Agent 2'' is an adventure/puzzle game by Telltale Games, in collaboration with Graham Annable. It is the sequel to '' Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent''. It was released on June 30, 2011. Gameplay Like the first installment, gameplay structu ...

''. That game came out in 2011, the year following his departure from Telltale.

Games

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

'', programmer, co-writer (LucasArts) *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

'', script programmer (LucasArts) *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

''New Legends'', designer (Infinite Machine) *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

''Simcity 4'', programmer (Electronic Arts) *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

: Abe Lincoln Must Die!, Reality 2.0 and Bright Side of the Moon'', writer (Telltale Games) *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

'' Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space'', lead writer, co-designer (Telltale Games) *2008 ''

: Strong Badia the Free and 8-Bit is Enough'', designer, co-writer (Telltale Games) *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

'' Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse'', lead writer, co-designer (writer, co-director ''The Penal Zone'', writer, designer ''The City That Dares Not Sleep'') (Telltale Games) * 2011 ''

'', writer (Telltale Games) *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

'' The Walking Dead'', story consultant, writer (Telltale Games)https://www.linkedin.com/in/spectrecollie/ *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Tales From the Borderlands ''Tales from the Borderlands'' is an episodic interactive comedy graphic adventure sci-fi video game based on the '' Borderlands'' series. It was developed by Telltale Games under license from Gearbox Software, the developer of the ''Borderland ...

'', writer (Telltale Games)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Chuck American video game designers American video game directors Living people Video game programmers Video game writers 1971 births