Paul Teale - Building Games with Flutter: The ultimate guide to creating multiplatform games using the Flame engine in Flutter 3

The ultimate guide to creating multiplatform games using the Flame engine in Flutter 3

Paul Teale

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To my beautiful wife, Mariel, and our adorable baby boy, Alfie, who I love with all my heart. In memory of my parents, Alfred and Vera Teale.

Paul Teale

Paul Teale was born and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire, before moving to London to pursue a career in software engineering. He has been a software engineer for 25+ years, covering backend, web, and mobile, where he has spent the last 13 years as a mobile developer covering Android and, more recently, Flutter. He has worked on many large projects during his career for companies including Discovery, Sky, Shazam, Visa, NBC, and Channel 5. He is a massive sci-fi fan and loves watching all the latest movies. He has been happily married to Mariel for the last 16 years and they live together in West London with their son, Alfie, and their 2 cats.

I would like to thank the people who are close to me and have supported me, especially my sisters, Sandra, Angela, and Debra.

And to my great friends, Philip Hartley, Iain Baker, and Linda Chan, who have helped me through so much in my life.

Linda Chan is a software engineer with a passion for exploring new technologies, teaching children to code, and developing fun games.

Working in London for start-ups and large companies, Linda began her career as a web developer and quickly transitioned to building native iOS apps. She saw huge potential in the early days of Flutter and has not looked back.

She now resides in Wales with her husband, daughter, and cat named Qwerty. Outside of coding, Linda enjoys drawing, playing the venova, guitar, piano and searching for Koroks in the land of Hyrule.

Samarth Agarwal is an experienced software engineer who specializes in the creation of mobile and web applications. He has been an active Flutter developer and has contributed numerous text and video-based courses on app development across a wide range of technologies. As a result of his content being used on multiple platforms, Samarth has helped over 20,000 students worldwide.

Currently, Samarth is a senior software engineer at QuillBot. When he is not working, he enjoys listening to music and playing first-person shooter games, not to mention that he enjoys exploring new locations and capturing everything through a lens.

Satyam Sharma is a Flutter developer from India. He has designed, developed, and shipped several apps on the Play Store.

He enjoys playing RPGs, reading books, and traveling in his free time. If he isn't busy with that, you can almost always find him looking for new project ideas. He goes by the username satyamx64 on the internet.