Paris Buttfield-Addison

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, and the Qantas Joey Playbox, and the popular open source YarnSpinner narrative game framework.

Paris formerly worked as a software engineer, and 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 on machine learning, programming, and game development for O’Reilly Media.

He can be found on Twitter @parisba and online at http://paris.id.au