Paris Buttfield-Addison
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Paris Buttfield-Addison is a entrepreneur, software developer, trainer and book author from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Paris is co-founder of Secret Lab, leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Paris' co-founder at Secret Lab is Jon Manning, and formerly Andrew Bennett.
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[edit] Biography
Paris founded and led ithinkitworks P/L from 2001 to 2008, spearheading product development and design efforts on a variety of platforms including desktop Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile/Pocket PC and others.
Paris is also a highly experienced software developer, product and project manager. Key experiences include Objective-C/Cocoa on the Macintosh and iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad platforms, Java on Blackberry and Google Android and C# on Windows Mobile. Open GL ES and Unity are also favourites.
Paris has degrees in History, Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction and is studying for a PhD in Informatics.
[edit] Writing
Paris is the co-author of the books iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies and Unity Mobile Game Development For Dummies (both with Jon Manning and Neal Goldstein)[1]. The books cover game development on mobile platforms such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices in languages/frameworks such as Objective-C, CocoaTouch, Open GL ES, Unity, C# and JavaScript. They also cover game design techniques, principles and patterns.
[edit] Bibliography
- Neal Goldstein, Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison (2010). iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1st Edition (November 2010). ISBN 978-0470599105
[edit] Apps
Buttfield-Addison has several iPhone applications currently selling on the App Store from his company Secret Lab. He has also developed/led the development of several applications of note, including the IM client Meebo.
[edit] Development Work
As a developer he is focused on developing games and apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Mac OS X.
[edit] Training
Buttfield-Addison is a trainer for the iPhone Boot Camp organization, and has run created 3-day workshops and trained for them in Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, New York City and Silicon Valley. He has also trained for the ACS (Australian Computer Society), Apple Australia and the Apple University Consortium. His company, Secret Lab, also runs private and custom training and development workshops in iOS, Unity game development, Android and Windows Phone 7.
