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For those of you who don’t look at the home page very often, you may not realize the our editor-in-chief and all-purpose person, Jack Allin, is leaving his position here at AG. 
https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/end-of-an-era-ags-editor-says-goodbye

I’ve already sent a personal message to Jack, but I also want to acknowledge here how much I will miss his competence, his excellent writing, his sense of humor, and all the extra work he has done to make this site run smoothly. 

I will miss you, Jack, but I wish you every good thing for the future!

Jack and I did not always see eye-to-eye on many things. I was threatened with temporary exile on several occasions. Still, he is a great talent. And wherever he decides to take those talents, the recipient will be better for it.

When I first started frequenting this site (years before actually joining the forums), Jack was already editor-in-chief, so it’s safe to say that I’ve *only* known this site with Jack at the helm.

Jack was the one to get me on board as a moderator (a decade ago already!), and during this time my respect for him has only grown.

The quality of editing at this site has always been exceptional, easily rivaling (and often surpassing) most big-time professional review sites. That’s Jack’s legacy here.

I wish him all the best in his future endeavours, and wherever that takes him, they’ll be lucky to have someone as talented as Jack.

Jack, you’ll be sorely missed!

And Ivo, not meaning to scare you, but you’ve got some big shoes to fill now!

This year is a roller coaster: incredible news, devastating news, incredible, devastating… Can’t imagine AG without Jack who seemed to be behind everything, the soul of the community who organized all those interviews and Aggies, wrote and edited everything while keeping it independent and out of politics, yelled at us. I imagine it was hell of a job - I spent twice as less here only playing adventures and leaving stupid comments, and I still often felt that games take too much of my time. And he stayed with AG during the harshest times and then built it into the best gaming website out there. I don’t think it will be possible to replace him. Good luck on your new quest, Jack.

Doom - 16 April 2022 04:50 PM

This year is a roller coaster: incredible news, devastating news, incredible, devastating… Can’t imagine AG without Jack who seemed to be behind everything, the soul of the community who organized all those interviews and Aggies, wrote and edited everything while keeping it independent and out of politics, yelled at us. I imagine it was hell of a job - I spent twice as less here only playing adventures and leaving stupid comments, and I still often felt that games take too much of my time. And he stayed with AG during the harshest times and then built it into the best gaming website out there. I don’t think it will be possible to replace him. Good luck on your new quest, Jack.

I’m co-signing this one.

i have always known how essential is he to the site, and how he holds all the aspects here except the technical matters, it had been an honor working under his supervision, gave him hell, I know, but i always had the utmost respect for him. come on he looked like Dave Murray!. wish you the best Jack,  for wherever your next passion at

Working on my senior thesis this year has temporarily taken me away from writing for AG on a regular basis, but the past 8 years with Jack editing my work have been amazing. I’ll definitely miss his red pen.

Cheers to you, Jack, wherever you go from here.

Thanks for making this thread!

Goodbye Jack, and thank you! The past months/years have been very hard for me and for the world in general, and your departure is another challenge for the people who knew you, or who were reading AG.

I didn’t know you more than that on a personal point, but you always had the words to encourage small indie devs, because they are also writing the History of adventure games. The first time that I contacted AG to introduce ASA, about 10 years ago, I was very shy and didn’t know how to talk about my game, how publishers usually do it, and what players would think of my humble solo project. I’ve made mistakes, I’ve been clumsy, but it’s people like Jack that have helped me to get up and move on. I didn’t have very high expectations for each of my projects, they were quite invisible in general in the press, have never sold a lot, but you read my messages everytime (despite my French to English translation which is not always easy), and AG wrote unexpectedly good reviews for my games.

Finally year after year I continue to work hard, probably with a different vision than at my beginning, and I’m still around here on AG, reading regularly the forum threads and checking the news, even if I remain silent most of the time. There is a solid and welcoming community here, which is also thanks to you Jack, who kept the site alive with everyone’s help and passion, despite some challenges and opposite perspectives, probably (knowing a little how it is to have to manage a team ^^).

Whoever takes the seat of editor in chief, you will do mistakes and will have your own direction, but please walk in the steps of Jack and don’t lose the heritage that he left to AG, allowing the site to still be here and well in 2022. Good luck!

I’ll always respect the man for giving 4 stars to a brilliant The Journeyman Project 3 (and of course, for everything else he did for this site )

p.s. but he also rejected my offer to write for AG, but that was more than 10 years ago when my English wasn’t that great so I’ll forgive him that one