Gaming Hacks

Contributors

The following people contributed their hacks, writing, and inspiration to this book:

• Adam Cadre (http://adamcadre.ac) is the author of the novel Ready, Okay! and the web comic ACX. He has also written several computer programs, most of which prominently feature the line 20 GOTO 10. Among those that don’t are the interactive fiction works Photopia, Varicella, and Narcolepsy.

  [Hacks #88 and #89]

• chromatic cut his teeth programming games for the Commodore 64 before growing up to become Technical Editor of the O’Reilly Network. In practice, that means he edits http://ONLamp.com (open source administration and development), http://Perl.com, and, occasionally, books like this one. Outside of work, he enjoys cooking and producing weird software hacks such as SDL Parrot. Wade through the disarray of his web site at http://wgz.org/chromatic/.

  [Hacks #2, #3, #81, #91-#93]

• Frank Dellario cofounded the award-winning Machinima animation company, the ILL Clan in 1998 and is its current president. He has served as the producer, production manager, assistant director, and cinematographer on numerous ILL Clan productions, bringing over 15 years of experience in film production to great use. He recently produced a series of vignettes for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards. Frank also cofounded, published, and edited FilmCrew magazine, a trade journal for the film industry business, for over eight years, and has been a multimedia producer as well. Prior to all this, he spent six years in the U.S. ...