Meet the man trying to preserve Nova Scotia’s video game history

Adam Hartling works for the provincial government, and pauses when I ask him what he does: “Oh, what do they call me? I’m a business operations analyst, I guess,” he said. “I work for the procurement department at the Nova Scotia government.” His real passion though, is video games. Specifically, video games created in Nova Scotia. Hartling is a passionate games enthusiast, determined to archive and preserve locally made games, and to support the local industry in any way he can. The closure of Ubisoft’s Halifax at the beginning of this year — after a successful unionization drive — has left a…