About the Author

Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early 1980s, with a particular interest in game development. He taught online programming for the European Social Fund (ESF) and founded a web development company in Italy.

As a Game Developer, he has developed Flash games sponsored by the biggest game portals and his games have been played more than 70 million times, and he is now porting most of them on mobile platforms.

As a writer, he has worked as a Technical Reviewer for Packt Publishing and published the book Flash Game Development by Example, Packt Publishing.

His blog, www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie programming.

First of all I would like to give a big thank you to Erin Catto, the guy who developed Box2D, and to Boris the Brave for porting it to AS3.

A thank you also goes to Shraddha Bagadia and the entire Packt Publishing team for believing in this project, as well as to the reviewers for dealing with my drafts and improving the book.

The biggest thank you obviously goes to my blog readers and to my Facebook fans for appreciating my work, giving me the will to write more and more.

I also want to thank my wife Kirenia for being patient while I was writing rather than helping her to paint the house. Awesome job Kirenia!