20th December Adam James Powell (born 20 December 1976 in Newport, Wales) is a game designer and businessman. He is the co-founder of Neopets and Meteor Games. Powell first had the idea of Neopets in 1997, while studying at Nottingham University. He and Donna Powell (formerly Donna Williams) started programming the site in September 1999, and launched the site two months later on November 15, 1999. Powell programmed the entire site, and created most of the original activities and games. Powell has creative design and writing credits on a wide variety of Neopets products including SCEAs 2006 PlayStation Portable release Neopets: Petpet Adventures, The Wand of Wishing, Wizards of the Coast, the Neopets Trading Card Game and Sony Computer Entertainment America Incs 2005 release Neopets: The Darkest Faerie, for the PlayStation 2. In 2007, Adam and Donna Powell founded Meteor Games, an independent online gaming studio committed to developing immersive and innovative games spanning the web, social networks, and mobile devices. Meteor Games first project was Twin Skies, a 3D MMO that blended casual gaming and social networking elements with traditional massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Meteor Games released their first web-based game Vikings, Pirates and Ninjas in March 2009. The game was free to play on the web and Facebook. In the companys shift to the rapidly growing social gaming market it released several games based on internal intellectual property including: Island Paradise which became a large commercial success, Serf Wars, and Ranch Town.
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