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 market—and 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.
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 Edition—his first game in over twenty years. It's available on iOS, Android, and Ouya.
On reading Gideros Mobile Game Development. Anthony said, "Nothing like this book or development kit was available when I started writing video games, I wish it had been though! It takes you from installing Gideros to coding a complete game that is actually commercially available. Recommended!"
