Mark Rein·Hagen

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Mark Rein·Hagen (often written Rein-Hagen) is a role-playing, card, video and board game designer, best known as the creator of Vampire: The Masquerade and its associated World of Darkness games. Rein·Hagen is also one of the original two designers of Ars Magica along with Jonathan Tweet. A founder and owner of White Wolf he recently (2007) sold his half of the company and left the gaming field. Rein•Hagen served as a writer and producer for a TV show based on Vampire, produced by Aarron Spelling and shown on Fox TV, which was cancelled after nine episodes when its star Mark Frankel died in a motorcycle accident. Hagen is not related to Mark Rein, the vice-president of Epic Games.

As a side project independent of White Wolf Game Studio, Rein·Hagen founded Atomoton Games and created Z-G, the first collectible action figure game. Despite the high production value and plans for numerous tie-ins, the game failed to find a market and sank the company.

Currently Mark lives in Tbilisi, Georgia with his wife and child, and works as an international consultant for the government there.