Biography

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab (https://secretlab.games), a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, the wildly popular Yarn Spinner (https://yarnspinner.dev), an open source narrative game development framework, and the award-winning ABC Play School and Qantas Joey Playbox iPad games. Paris formerly worked as a software engineer, and later product manager for Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012. He has a degree in medieval history, a PhD in Computing, and writes technical books (around 30 so far) on machine learning, programming, and game development for O’Reilly Media. He can be found on the Fediverse at http://cloudisland.nz/@parisba and online at http://paris.id.au

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Paris Buttfield-Addison