About the Authors
Dr. Paris Buttfield-Addison is cofounder of Secret Lab (@TheSecretLab on Twitter), a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Australia. Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the multiaward-winning ABC Play School iPad games, Night in the Woods, the Qantas airlines Joey Playbox games, and the Yarn Spinner narrative game framework. Paris formerly worked as mobile product manager for Meebo (acquired by Google), has a degree in medieval history, and a PhD in computing, and writes technical books on mobile and game development (more than 20 so far) for O’Reilly Media. Paris particularly enjoys game design, statistics, law, machine learning, and human-centered technology research. He can be found on Twitter at @parisba and online at http://paris.id.au.
Mars Buttfield-Addison is a computer science and machine learning researcher, as well as freelance creator of STEM educational materials. She is currently working toward her PhD in computer engineering at the University of Tasmania, collaborating with CSIRO’s Data61 to investigate how large radio telescope arrays can be adapted to identify and track space debris and satellites in the near field while simultaneously performing deep space observations for astronomy. Mars can be found on Twitter @TheMartianLife and online at https://themartianlife.com.
Dr. Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, tools builder, researcher, and tech author. When he isn’t busy avoiding ...
