Adam Saltsman

Adam Saltsman
Nationality	American
Other names	Adam Atomic
Occupation	Indie video game developer
Years active	2008- present
Known for	Canabalt

Adam Saltsman, also known as Adam Atomic, is an American indie

Career

Flixel (2008-11)

Saltsman produced an

Saltsman developed the browser game Gravity Hook in August 2008, which is a vertically scrolling video game in which the player attempts to use a futuristic grappling hook to climb out of an underground, secret base in order to reach the surface.^[3] The game was remade into Gravity Hook HD for browser and iOS in 2010.^[4]

Canabalt (2009)

Saltsman developed the endless runner Canabalt in 2009, where an anonymous runner moves in one direction and is able to jump and slide upon landing. Boing Boing described the game as a "one-button action-opus".^[5] It was made in response to Experimental Gameplay's "Bare Minimum" challenge. The game's viral success was a surprise to him, and he later felt like he squandered the opportunity and audience.^[5] When asked in an interview where he imagined the running man coming from, Saltsman stated "I used to have fantasies at my old office job of running down our long, long hallway just for fun. And to literally escape. I'd forgotten about that until months after Canabalt came out. There used to be an intro cinematic that I was designing, where the character receives an email, but it was all getting in the way of the main thing".^[6] Saltsman presented the game design concept of "Time Until Death" at the 2011 IndieCade.^[2]

Hundreds (2013)

Saltsman began to collaborate with Greg Wohlwend on Hundreds.^[7] The game was Wohlwend's first as game designer, and he open sourced the game after online game sites showed no interest in purchasing it.^[8] Semi Secret's Eric Johnson found the code and made an iPad port in a weekend, beginning the collaboration.^[9] Semi Secret did not have the funds to begin a new game from scratch, so the project fit their company roadmap. Saltsman did not expect to work on the game himself, but became the primary puzzle designer.^[8] It was released on January 7, 2013 for iPhone and iPad,^[10] and on June 28 for Android^[11] to what video game review score aggregator Metacritic called "generally favorable" reviews.^[12] It was an honorable mention in Best Mobile Game and Nuovo Award categories of the 2012 Game Developers Conference Independent Games Festival,^[13] and an honorable mention in Excellence in Visual Art at the 2013 festival.^[14] Hundreds was also an official selection at IndieCade 2012.^[15][16] In January 2013, Saltsman was working on an Android release of the game.^[7]

Alphabet (2013)

Saltsman collaborated with

Finji

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In March 2014, Saltsman re-announced Finji, a game studio that had existed since 2006 but was relaunched. Saltsman directs the studio, and his wife, Rebekah, produces and does game design. The company develops games internally and produces others. They announced four titles with the relaunch. The first, Portico, is in collaboration with