Michael Stemmle

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title: "Michael Stemmle" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1967-births", "living-people", "lucasfilm-people", "place-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "stanford-university-alumni", "american-video-game-designers", "american-video-game-directors", "american-video-game-writers"] description: "American video game designer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stemmle" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American video game designer ::

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Field	Value
name	Michael Stemmle
image	Michael Stemmle.jpg
caption	Stemmle at the 2008 Comic-Con International
Photo courtesy of Mike Haley
birth_date
occupation	Game designer, game writer, game director
alma_mater	Stanford University
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| name = Michael Stemmle | image = Michael Stemmle.jpg | caption = Stemmle at the 2008 Comic-Con International Photo courtesy of Mike Haley | birth_date = | occupation = Game designer, game writer, game director | alma_mater = Stanford University

Michael J. Stemmle (born 1967) 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

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Year	Title	Role	Developer	Notes
1990	The Secret of Monkey Island	Designer	Lucasfilm Games	256 colors version
1992	Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis	Lead scripter, assistant designer, programmer	LucasArts
1993	Sam & Max Hit the Road	Co-director, co-designer
1996	Afterlife	Director, designer
2000	Escape from Monkey Island	Co-director, co-designer
2002	Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast	Script writer	Raven Software
2004	Sam & Max Freelance Police	Director, designer	LucasArts	Unreleased
2005	Star Wars: Battlefront II	Script writer	Pandemic Studios
2007	Star Trek Online	Story lead	Perpetual Entertainment	Unreleased version, before transfer to Cryptic Studios
2008	Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People	Designer, script writer	Telltale Games
2009	Tales of Monkey Island	Designer, script writer
2010	Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse	Designer, script writer
2011	Back to the Future: The Game	Designer, script writer
2013	Poker Night 2	Script writer, programmer
2014	The Wolf Among Us	Designer, script writer	First version before redesign
Tales from the Borderlands	Designer
2021	Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual	Designer, script writer
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References

References

1. (2014-07-17). "Revisiting Sam & Max Hit the Road". [[IGN]].
2. (2001-02-22). "GDC Award nominees announced". [[GameSpot]].
3. (2014-08-13). "More LucasArts Veterans Leave Telltale". [[The International House of Mojo]].

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