David Adams | |
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![]() Adams in 2015 | |
Occupation(s) | Video game designer, founder of Gunfire Games |
David Adams is an American video game designer best known for his work on Darksiders and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium. In 2014, Adams founded Gunfire Games [1]
David Adams co-founded Realm Interactive to create Trade Wars: Dark Millennium, a sequel of the classic BBS game Trade Wars 2002. Realm Interactive generated interest in the industry around the nostalgia of the old game. [2] NCSoft initially decided to publish Trade Wars, but later decided that since the game had changed significantly it should be renamed as Exarch. [3]
In 2005, Adams founded Vigil Games with Joe Madureira. [4] In 2006, Vigil Games was acquired by THQ. [5] As a part of THQ's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Vigil Games was closed on January 23, 2013. Just days later, Adams became the CEO of a new Austin-based branch of Crytek, known as Crytek USA. The studio hired many of Vigil Games' former employees, based purely off their work under his leadership. [6] Adams later left Crytek. [7] In July 2014, Adams started an independent video game studio Gunfire Games along with other former Crytek USA staff. [8] He currently serves as the CEO of Gunfire Games.