Michael Stemmle
Michael J. Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer, and director who cocreated some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s.
He joined LucasArts after graduating from Stanford University, where he honed his comedy skills writing halftime shows for the Stanford Band and skits for the annual stage musical Big Game Gaieties. After 14 years at LucasArts, he left following the 2004 collapse of Sam & Max Freelance Police and after a period of freelancing, joined Perpetual Entertainment, working as Story Lead for Star Trek Online. In February 2008, he joined a number of other ex-LucasArts employees at Telltale Games. He had worked on the first version of The Wolf Among Us before it was redesigned, and contributed to Tales from the Borderlands before he left Telltale Games in May 2014.Game credits
- 1990 The Secret of Monkey Island designer, 256 colors version
- 1992 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis lead scripter, assistant designer, programmer
- 1993 Sam & Max Hit the Road co-director, co-designer
- 1996 Afterlife director, designer
- 2000 Escape from Monkey Island co-director, co-designer
- 2002 ' script writer
- 2004 Sam & Max Freelance Police, director, designer
- 2005 ' script writer
- 2007 Star Trek Online story lead
- 2008 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People designer, script writer
- 2009 Tales of Monkey Island designer, script writer
- 2010 ' designer, script writer
- 2011 ' designer, script writer
- 2013 Poker Night 2 script writer, programmer
- 2014 The Wolf Among Us designer, script writer
- 2014 Tales from the Borderlands designer
