Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development
Copyright 2012 by Wayne Graham
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About the Author
Wayne Graham heads the Research and Development division of the University of Virginia's Scholars' Lab, a digital humanities research center. He holds a Master's Degree from the College of William and Mary in History, and has over a decade of experience as a developer and systems administrator, with work in a variety of fields including computer graphics, high performance computing, geographic information systems, augmented reality, and architectural history.
Wayne can be found online on Twitter @wayne_graham
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About the Technical Reviewer
Eric Rochester is Senior R&D Developer at the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia. He started programming games in BASIC on a TRS-80. He's written a program or two since then, and he still has fun writing a game every so often.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all of the hard working editors who helped on this book. I am indebted to the editorial team who offered advice and their encouragement throughout the writing phase. I am grateful for the work Steve Anglin did bringing the initial idea to fruition, Ben Renow-Clarke for his comments and advice, Brent Dubi for answering all of my many questions along the way and his work in ensuring the process went smoothly. Additionally I would like to thank the copy-editors Valerie Greco and Heather Graham for the invaluable feedback they provided.