Dennis Detwiller (born July 12, 1972) is a computer game designer for Hothead Games as well as a role-playing game developer and artist. He was born in New York City , but now resides in the Vancouver, Canada area. Detwiller was raised in New York with a childhood often described as "stranger than fiction". He began work as an inker for Marvel Comics in the 1990s, and attended School of Visual Arts on Scholarship. He worked for many years as a freelance artist, often using the University Village, Starbucks in Seattle as his studio.