Adam Ryland

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Adam Ryland

Adam Ryland is a British programmer best known for creating the Extreme Warfare series of games.

1 Background
2 Extreme Warfare
3 Future projects
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Background

Born July 23, 1980 and currently residing in Birmingham, England, Ryland graduated from Aston University in 2001 with a degree in computer science. After graduating, Ryland worked for Wrox Press Ltd. for 2 years as the Chief Editor and Project Manager of Wrox's .NET web sites, C#Today and VBToday, and also contributed as an editor to the ASPToday web site and several of Wrox's successful .NET Handbook titles.

[edit] Extreme Warfare

Main article: Extreme Warfare

Perhaps Ryland's best-known accomplishment is Extreme Warfare, a series of professional wrestling management games. They were developed as freeware from 1995 until 2003. The last game in the freeware series was Extreme Warfare Revenge. Ryland stopped producing the series because the game was getting too complex to work on in his free time and "by the end, it simply became impossible to spend that much time writing them as well as doing a regular 9-5 job."

He then created Total Extreme Warfare 2004 (TEW 2004). Originally titled Total Extreme Warfare 2004, the name was changed to Total Extreme Wrestling to distance itself from its freeware predecessor. The first TEW game was released on March 31, 2004 by .400 Software Studios. Wrestling Spirit: Rookie to Legend was Ryland's second professional title, released on November 30, 2004 by Grey Dog Software. Ryland's third, Total Extreme Wrestling 2005 (TEW 2005) was released on October 6, 2005, his fourth was Wrestling Spirit 2, released on June 29, 2006, and his fifth was Total Extreme Wrestling 2007, released on December 29, 2006.

Ryland's work enjoys a robust fan base, with a diligent circle of third-party supporters who provide data for the game. Of those, RaveX's members Jeff Cartwright and Phil Parent were hired by Ryland to work on Death Of The Territories (DOTT), a scenario based on 1980's wrestling. Eric Baker and Rick Arnold, two other members, have also joined Ryland's team, which was voted the best mod for TEW, End of the Golden Era (a 1993 based mod by TCP Productions) and T-Zone and Fall of the One Ring Circus (Popular Modern Era updates). Several others have released data for the game as well.

[edit] Future projects

Ryland, through Grey Dog Software, announced World of Mixed Martial Arts on March 23rd, 2007.^[1] Adam has stated that it "could be described as "TEW meets MMA"".^[2]