October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Simon Carless (http://www.mono211.com/ffwd) is Editor of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com, the two major resources for professional video game developers. He formerly worked as a PC and console game designer for companies including Eidos Interactive and Atari, an editor for popular technology web site Slashdot, and is the author of Gaming Hacks, O’Reilly’s previous game-related Hacks title. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife Holly and a sock-obsessed dachshund named Rollo.
Cameron Davis (http://www.gazunta.com) started working in the games industry back when the Atari Jaguar was considered a good idea. However, unlike Atari, he is currently not a bastardised parody of his former self. He has written for GameSpot, IGN, Pocket Games, and Official Australian Xbox Magazine among many other publications. He is currently Lead Designer on an unannounced major character action title at Krome Studios, due for release September 2006. Davis’ other credits at Krome include Designer/Assistant Producer on the GBA version of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 and QA roles on a variety of other titles. He lives with his very patient wife Sabrina in Brisbane, Australia.
Matt DelGiudice has dabbled in video game journalism since 1998, contributing reviews, photos, and FAQs to a variety of web sites and fanzines. Recently, he spent a year in Saitama, Japan as ...
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