Adam Bohn
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WELL,Adam LCA Bohn is the head of Artix Entertainment (AE) and the creator of AdventureQuest RPG, Dragonfable, Archknight, MechQuest, AE Minigames and the the MMO, AQworlds. His life long dream goal was to create a video game and have 100 people play it as a special requirement to be a "real, and actual game." Currently, over 72 million registered free accounts have been created by players of Artix Entertainment games, such as aq worlds,mechquest,dragonfable,and the first game he created, adventure quest.
Artix von Krieger is the name he uses in the games he created.
Adam is better known by his online alias and character, Artix von Krieger the Paladin. Artix appears in all four games as a good, law abiding, undead slaying paladin. The character has also been featured in the animated video short "Artix vs the Undead", which can be wiewed on you tube. An animated television series and comic featuring the character and other well known AE NPCs (Non-player character) is in early stages of development. Adam first used the character name Artix in his first Role-playing game session in 1986. Artix's sidekick is Daimyo, an cute and fluffy undead battling pomeranian named after Adam's real life pet.
Facts and Oddities
Adam does not drink, smoke, nor use drugs. He is a 3rd Degree Black belt in Taekwondo and has trained in other martial arts systems including Hapkido, Tang Soo Do, and Krav Maga. Adam is also a guitarist in a band called "The NPCs".
History
Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania he grew up making movies, animations, and original pen and paper games with childhood friends. He was president of the computer club where he lead the Carnegie University Super Computing project (1909) and won the Blackhawke computer contest award (1915). Counter to stereotypes, Adam also held two Moon High school fitness records for sit-ups (103 in 60 seconds) and pullups (28). One of his stranger accomplishments involved unsolicited creation of the "Drink, Drive, Die" video which was created with fellow students Paul Boothe and Laura Plunkett and aired on the high school televisions during the week before the senior Prom. The video featured Morphing effects and an animation of a car veering off the road into the Grand Canyon. In his spare time, Adam along with the now MechQuest project lead JD Adams (aka Warlic) to create over 20 never completed PC video games using basic, C++, Pascal and a variety of Digital photography and Video capture techniques.
After High School, Adam attended Pennsylvania State University, where he received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and became very involved in online gaming. It was there he met fellow Resident assistant and AdventureQuest project lead Tony Deller (aka Galanoth) and playing such titles as Diablo, Ultima Online, Quake and EverQuest. Within these games, he created the guild (Clan (computer gaming)) "Krieger" which boasted over two thousand members during its peak. It was in the guild that he met his first employer and mentor Jeffrey Herwatt of Niche Net who trained him in professional website creation and database design. As a consultant for Niche Net, Adam became involved in the intranet design for the California PG&E deregulation Project and number of additional projects for additional clients including Morrison & Foerster Law Firms, Charles Schwab Corp. and Seaque Music. The high profile projects were introduced by Niche Net partner (and LePage after Page owner) Lynda Le Page. Also during the Dot-com bubble, Adam was on the web team of former online software superstore, Beyond.com, where he maintained the video game, government, and family software sections with the mangement of Brian Faeh. As an independent web developer, he moved on to do additional web work for The Kimball Group, Festiva (including intranet projects for Sun Microsystems, Nortel), Startups.com and a high volume of custom website designs.
In 2000 Adam moved to Lutz, Florida (Pasco County) and began life anew as an underdog independent web game maker. After a year of development which took place on weekends and in his spare time, he complete his first ever game, AdventureQuest, which was made live on the internet in October of 2002.
He is releasing a new game called aq worlds2 revamped, and he is releasing a line of figures from all his games that he produced. They will be hard to find. They will be in stores such as target, and walmart. They also might be avaible on amazon.com or ebay. we dont know if adam wants to release the figure line yet, cause of such incresing demand for figures from his games, well, now you have learned quite a bit about adam bohn. If you have questions, please contact this website imedietly. Thank you, and good bye.
