Adam Orth Is Turning His Personal Disaster Into A Beautiful Game
Adam Orth, one of last year's most notorious people on the
Internet, was nervous last week as he was showing me his new
creation: a beautiful, unusual game that he says was borne from
his 2013 travails.  "This is how I chose to, in the words of a
famous philosopher, 'deal with it,'" he self-consciously
chuckled as he began demoing the game in a hotel suite during
last week's DICE Summit in Las Vegas.  He was quoting his most
notorious phrase, dashed off on Twitter last year as he
infuriated scores of gamers and tipped a domino that'd lead to
an upending of his life.  At first you might not see the
connection between >Adr1ft and Orth's 2013 drama.  >Adr1ft is a
non-violent first-person game that poses the player as an
astronaut who begins the game floating above Earth amid the
debris of a mostly-wrecked space station. It exists now only as
a 10-week prototype that Orth is hoping to get funded. Orth's
studio partner, Omar Aziz, played through it