- Adam Ryland
Adam Ryland is a British
programmer best known for creating theExtreme Warfare series of games.Background
Born
July 23 1980 and currently residing inBirmingham, England , Ryland graduated fromAston University in2001 with a degree incomputer 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 Ryland's best-known accomplishment is
Extreme Warfare , a series ofprofessional wrestling management games. They were developed asfreeware from1995 until2003 . 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 . "" was Ryland's second professional title, released onNovember 30 ,2004 byGrey Dog Software . Ryland's third, "Total Extreme Wrestling 2005" (TEW 2005) was released onOctober 6 ,2005 , his fourth was "Wrestling Spirit 2", released onJune 29 ,2006 , and his fifth was "Total Extreme Wrestling 2007", released onDecember 29 ,2006 .Ryland's work enjoys a robust fan base, with a diligent circle of third-party supporters who provide data for the game. RaveX, by Jeff Cartwright and Phil Parent, was the first and possibly best remembered scenario for any of Mr. Ryland's games. While the RaveX data is currently retired, both Cartwright and Parent serve on Ryland's beta testing and creative teams. The Death Of The Territories (DOTT) by Eric Baker. A scenario based on 1980's wrestling, DOTT has seen data releases for TEW04, '05, '07 and WreSpi 1 & 2, making it the longest current running
data set in the TEW/WreSpi family.Other notables: TEW: End of the Golden Era (a 1993 based mod by TCP Productions), T-Zone and Fall of the One Ring Circus (Modern Era updates) are other popular data sets. He has recently released a new Mixed Martial Arts simulation game, aptly namedWorld of Mixed Martial Arts . It was released onDecember 8th ,2007 . A new installment of theTotal Extreme Wrestling series, namedTotal Extreme Wrestling 2008, was released onJune 1st 2008 .Future projects
Ryland, through Grey Dog Software, announced
World of Mixed Martial Arts 2 inAugust 2008 , yet didn't specify a release date.References
External links
* [http://tew.wikia.com/ Total Extreme Wrestling Wiki] at
Wikia
* [http://www.greydogsoftware.com Grey Dog Software]
* [http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum Extreme Warfare Battleground Forum]
* [http://www.ukevents.net/wwepeter7.shtml Adam Ryland Interview] UKEvents.net
* [http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/2004/articles/1082683362.php "Adam Ryland (Creator of "Extreme Warfare") Speaks Out In His First Audio Interview"] , by Matthew Tremley,April 22 ,2004 , LordsOfPain.com
* [http://www.oowrestling.com/columns/hocking/20061211.shtml "Talking with Adam Ryland, Creator of Total Extreme Wrestling"] ,December 11 ,2006 , by Matt Hocking, OnlineOnslaught.com
* [http://www.wrestling101.com/101/article/VGArticles/688/ "Adam Ryland Interview"] , By: Russ,September 24 ,2005 , Wrestling101.com
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