Jake Rodkin is an American computer game designer, writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, and graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

. He was the co-director Tales of Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island is a 2009 graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games and LucasArts. It is the fifth game in the Monkey Island series, released nearly a decade after the previous installment, Escape from Monkey Island. Developed for Windows and the Wii console, the game was...

, was the director the fifth episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. It is the third "season" of the Sam & Max episodic series created by Telltale Games, following Sam & Max Save the World and Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space...

, was the co-leader and co-writer of Poker Night at the Inventory

Poker Night at the Inventory

Poker Night at the Inventory is a poker video game developed by Telltale Games. It features four crossover characters: Tycho from the Penny Arcade webcomic, Max from the Sam & Max franchise, the Heavy-class from Team Fortress 2, and Strong Bad from the Homestar Runner web series...

, and was the co-leader and co-writer of Puzzle Agent 2. He also co-designed the re-issue of the comic collection Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway.

Career

Jake Rodkin began his writing career writing for the gaming websites The International House of Mojo

The International House of Mojo

The International House of Mojo is a website focused on LucasArts video games and the games started by people who left that company, such as Telltale Games, Double Fine Productions, and Autumn Moon Entertainment. It was founded in 1997 by James Spafford....

, Adventure Gamers

Adventure Gamers

Adventure Gamers is a computer game website created in 1998 dedicated to the genre of adventure games. It publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers....

, and Idle Thumbs. He joined Telltale Games

Telltale Games

Telltale Games is a leading independent digital first publisher and game developer founded in June 2004 as Telltale, Incorporated. Based in San Rafael, California, the studio includes designers formerly employed by LucasArts...

 as a graphic designer. He now works there as a game designer, director, writer, and project leader.

Recognition

The re-issue of the comic collection Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway, which Jake Rodkin co-designed with franchise creator Steve Purcell

Steve Purcell

Steve Ross Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007...

, was nominated for the Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

 for "Best Graphic Album-Reprint" in 2009.

Games

Psychonauts

Psychonauts

Psychonauts is a platform video game created by Tim Schafer, developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Majesco. The game was released on April 19, 2005, for the Xbox, April 26 for Microsoft Windows and June 21 for PlayStation 2. It was released on Steam on Oct 11, 2006, as an "Xbox...

, (Double Fine Productions

Double Fine Productions

Double Fine Productions is an American video game developer founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts. He started Double Fine with Programmers David Dixon and Jonathan Menzies in what was once a clog shop in San Francisco...

) Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, (Juniper Games) CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. Unlike the previous CSI games, this game was developed by Telltale Games, rather than 369 Interactive...

, graphic design (Telltale Games) Bone: The Great Cow Race

Bone: The Great Cow Race

Bone: The Great Cow Race is the third video game endeavor by Telltale Games, and the second episode of the Bone adventure game series. It was released in April 2006 after approximately seven months of production...

, graphic design (Telltale Games) Sam & Max Save the World

Sam & Max Save the World

Sam & Max Save the World is a 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 developed in episodic fashion, comprising six episodes that were released for Microsoft Windows...

, graphic design (Telltale Games) CSI: Hard Evidence

CSI: Hard Evidence

CSI: Hard Evidence is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. This is the fifth CSI game released, including CSI: Miami....

, graphic design (Telltale Games) Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, graphic design (Telltale Games) Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is an episodic point-and-click adventure game developed by Telltale Games based on the Homestar Runner web cartoon, with Strong Bad as the lead character. A total of five episodes were released for WiiWare and Windows between August 11, 2008 and...

, graphic design (Telltale Games) Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is an episodic series of adventure games by Telltale Games based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The first episode was released on March 24, 2009 for the PC...

, graphic design (Telltale Games) Tales of Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island is a 2009 graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games and LucasArts. It is the fifth game in the Monkey Island series, released nearly a decade after the previous installment, Escape from Monkey Island. Developed for Windows and the Wii console, the game was...

, co-director (Telltale Games) Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. It is the third "season" of the Sam & Max episodic series created by Telltale Games, following Sam & Max Save the World and Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space...

, graphic design, director of The City that Dares Not Sleep (Telltale Games) Puzzle Agent 2, co-writer, project leader (Telltale Games)

External links

• Telltale Games website