Francisco Tufró - Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK

Francisco Tufr has been captivated by computers and the possibility of using them to create new worlds since he was six years old. At age 14, he sort of hacked into a chat demo in Visual Basic and transformed it into a full-feature RPG chat, with support for maps, character sheets, and dice rolls. The years went by and he learned many things along the way, as any curious person does. Suddenly he found himself collaborating in various open-source projects, including Musix (a Linux distribution for musicians) and CLAM (working on the project for Google's Summer of Code 2008 ). He co-founded quov.is and worked as a Ruby on Rails developer for about 5 years while never forgetting about what drove him to computers in the first place, games.

He put together a team and created The Insulines , an old-school graphic adventure about rock 'n' roll and diabetes. It was thanks to this game that he first came into contact with Moai SDK. It took about 8 months of development. He fell so deeply in love with Moai SDK that now he's working full-time on it with Zipline Games.

He likes to call himself a developer, noting the difference from a programmer who is a person that has broad knowledge (not only in programming, but also in art, music, and other disciplines), perhaps not as deep as a specialized person does, but enough to tackle and solve problems in their entirety.

I want to thank Aldana for being the flower in concrete, my family for letting me break thousands of computers so that I could learn, the guys at Zipline Games for creating and (especially) sharing this amazing piece of software, and last but not the least, the guys at quov.is, with whom I have shared the most amazing experiences. I also want to thank the team behind The Insulines for a rushed but nice job.

Eric Edelman grew up in Indiana then moved out to the Seattle area to attend the DigiPen Institute of Technology. There he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Real-Time Interactive Simulation while getting a double minor in Math and Physics. After that he worked at Microsoft writing automated tests for the XNA framework before moving to his position at Zipline Games. At Zipline Games, he helps to maintain Moai SDK as well as in creating in-house mobile games using Moai. He has worked on hit games such as Wolf Toss and Slots Tycoon together getting more than 2.5 million players.

Marcos "marquete" Navarro (pronounced mark-ET-eh) grew up in a small town and figured out he wanted to become a computer programmer at the age of 13. Five years later, he moved to Buenos Aires to study Computer Science. He has had the fortune of meeting some amazing people while away from his hometown, a subset of which he now works with.

Although software development pays his bills, he's always had a thing for language, and he really enjoys pointing out people's mistakes to them.

He also likes to write about himself in the third person whenever the opportunity arises.

I want to thank my girlfriend Mercedes (my favorite linguist) for helping me throughout the review process and being supportive in general.

Adam Villalobos went to DigiPen Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Real-Time Interactive Simulation with a minor in Math. He has worked with numerous platforms and technologies to develop games from console to PC, but especially focusing on mobile. He has also worked on Wolf Toss and Slots Tycoon for Zipline Games using Moai. For the Moai platform, he developed various features such as the Native Client host as well as optimized and debugged it for mobile.

I would like to thank everyone at Zipline Games for their work on the Moai SDK as well as the Moai community. Without them none of this would have been possible.

Alejandro Jimenez Vilarroya is a very experienced Spanish developer who has worked with many coding languages and tools during his career.

He has been coding for fun and learning purposes since he was 7 years old, and also worked as a professional coder later on. He has worked with languages such as Lua, JavaScript, C#, and Visual Basic, developing apps and games for various desktop and mobile platforms.

Alejandro started his own company, DunkelGames, in 2010, which was co-founded with the graphic artist Joan Carles Quintans after releasing ChocoRun , their first and very acclaimed mobile game.

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