I can’t consider it’s been a month already since we announced Adam’s impending departure, however the day has come. Today is Adam’s final day at RPS.
Or really, yesterday was his official final day, however he’s nonetheless right here at the moment ending off some options. It’s good of him to supply such a neat anecdote which encapsulates his dedication and keenness for the job over the previous seven years.
Since 2011 Adam has completed as a lot as anybody to outline the location’s voice. To me, his writing has at all times been considerate and welcoming, drawing readers in like an older, smarter buddy who needs to introduce you to one thing he is aware of you’ll love. Through this work he’s opened up genres that are so typically obtuse, from historic grand technique to truck simulators to ASCII roguelikes, turning them into experiences that you could recognize even should you don’t play them.
I’m going to repeat myself barely, however once I take into consideration his work, I primarily take into consideration Night Drive. Maybe it’s much less putting now that we’ve written a lot for therefore a few years in regards to the oddity that’s Euro Truck Simulator 2, however I don’t suppose so. From the primary paragraph after the soar, I’m transported, hanging on its each phrase, determined to see the place this street journey is headed and to expertise it for myself. I labored some other place when the article was revealed and I bear in mind folks passing it round: take a look at this, they’d say. It wasn’t the bizarre recreation they have been excited by, it was the phrases.
Adam’s completed that many times. I take into consideration Of Crime And The City, Breaking History (and part two), and the choose-your-own-adventure Perusing The Main Menu At The In-Game Cafe. I take into consideration him writing our mammoth Best Strategy Games characteristic on his personal, and all the reporting from events he’d do. (You can read all of his posts here.)
I take into consideration opinions, which have been Adam’s specialty. Pick one? Take Crusader Kings 2 (“…of course, some people won’t find anything to love at all. Those people are dead inside.”).
And I take into consideration all of the work Adam has completed behind the scenes, as a persistently buoyant presence in work chats and as an editor who has had his fingers on just about each characteristic and evaluation to go up on the location these previous few years. You’ve been studying his phrases whether or not you knew it or not.
Adam began in video games journalism at RPS and he’s leaving now to enter recreation improvement. That means two issues: one, the sphere is dropping certainly one of its brightest voices, which I’m rising sadder in regards to the longer I spend scripting this publish; two, Adam is the Ryan Giggs of video games journalism.
Thanks, Adam.
