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Adam Ryland is a British programmer who is most famous for creating the Extreme Warfare series of games.

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.

Extreme Warfare

Perhaps Adam's most famous accomplishment is the series of games known as Extreme Warfare. These were 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. Adam stopped producing the series as the game was getting too complex to work on in his free time and quoted "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 game was renamed to Total Extreme Wrestling distance itself from its freeware predecessor. The first TEW game was released on March 31, 2004 under .400 Software Studios. Wrestling Spirit: Rookie to Legend was Ryland's second professional title released on November 30, 2004 under Grey Dog Software. Adam's third professional title, Total Extreme Wrestling 2005 (TEW 2005) was released on October 6, 2005.

Future Projects

Although nothing has been officially released at this point, Ryland has stated that he would like to make a sequel to Wrestling Spirit and it is generally accepted that such a game will be made and released in 2006. It is also possible that a sequel to Total Extreme Wrestling 2005 could be released, however this is less discussed than the Wrestling Spirit sequel. If such a sequel were released, it would likely be in the latter half of 2006 or possibly the early half of 2007. Ryland has also stated that he has some other projects unrelated to wrestling simulators.

Fanbase

Adam and his games have built up quite a large fan base on the Internet. These fans communicate via forums such the Extreme Warfare Battleground, the .400 Software Studios forums and the Grey Dog Software forums. Although there were a few small mumblings of "selling out", the general reaction to Adam's turning professional was a postive one. In fact, if Adam had not chosen to turn his games professional, another freeware release would have been extremely unlikely.

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