David Adams (video game designer)

In 1997, Adams founded Stone Jackal Studios in Gilbert, Arizona, and developed his first game, Crush! Deluxe, via publisher MegaMedia Corp. He left Stone Jackal Studios to co-found Realm Interactive to pursue the development of a new game based on the popular BBS door game Trade Wars. Named Trade Wars: Dark Millennium, Realm Interactive generated interest in the industry around the nostalgia of the old game.[1] NCSoft initially decided to publish Trade Wars, but later decided that since the game had changed significantly it should be renamed as Exarch.[2] NCSoft later purchased Realm Interactive and moved its team from Mesa, Arizona, to their offices in Austin, Texas.

In 2005, Adams left NCSoft to found Vigil Games with other former NCSoft employees, where they began work on Darksiders: Wrath of War. In March 2006, Vigil Games was acquired by THQ. 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.[3] Adams left Crytek USA 18 months thereafter to found an independent studio, Gunfire Games.