Arturs Sosins - Gideros Mobile Game Development

Arturs Sosins is a developer living with his wife Anna and son Tomass. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science and even though he is working as a developer full time, he still loves coding and shares his knowledge with others in his spare time.

In his last years at the university, he started chasing the dream of creating his own mobile games for fun and personal satisfaction in his spare time. After trying out lots of different cross-platform frameworks for mobile game development, he found Gideros SDK in January 2012 and liked it so much that he decided to stick with it when developing his games.

In the summer of 2012, he founded a group of like-minded developers/designers who go under the indie label Jenots.com (http://jenots.com/). They released Mashballs (http://jenots.com/mashballs), their first game, in September 2012 and are currently working on a couple of bigger game projects.

As there was a lack of learning materials and tutorials for Gideros and writing was one of the his favorite hobbies, he started creating different tutorials on how to accomplish simple things in Gideros. This led him to create his new blog http://appcodingeasy.com. Due to popularity of his tutorials and the support he provided on the Gideros community forum, he became the most active community member.

In February 2013, the Gideros team offered him the position in the Gideros developers' team, where he has been working since then, while continuing to work on games in his spare time.

I would like to thank my family, my wife Anna and my son Tomass, for helping me by giving me the time to work on this book. I would also like to thank Atilim and Deniz Cetins for giving me the great opportunity to work with them and get all the inside information on Gideros and the awesomely supportive Gideros community.

John Andria is an author, designer, and entrepreneur.

He writes about lifestyle design, personal development, and career building. In his eyes app development is just one piece of a bigger picture. You can find his artworks and app development writings at http://thewindforest.com.

His life projects involve psychology, persuasion, and behavioral change researches. He currently helps social gaming companies to enter the Japanese marketand he understands what drives and engages the people there. His works, writings and children's books, have been translated and featured all over the world.

As a storyteller, he saw an opportunity in the mobile devices revolution and decided to experiment with this media as an indie developer first; but he is now getting even more involved as a publisher.

You can check the progress on the apps he is publishing at http://thewindforest.com.

I would like to thank all the people who are changing the world one step at a time, those who build and ship, and those who share their knowledge.

Anthony Ball describes himself as a coder. He has worked in the computer industry since the 1980s. During this time he has witten games published by Capcom, Rare/Zippo Games, US Gold, Tiertex, MB Games, and Psygnosis.

He reverse engineered both the Sony PSX and the Sega Dreamcast, creating various Arcade emulators, programming systems, and development kits for them.

He created ReportComplete, the market leading end-of-term school reports system, used by around 1,400 schools and 12,000 teachers.

With the advent of Gideros, he returned to developing video games to create Bacteria Arcade Editionhis first game in over twenty years. It's available on iOS, Android, and Ouya.

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