Paris Buttfield-Addison
Game Developer and Machine Learning PersonSecret Lab
Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Australia. For twelve years (so far!), Secret Lab has built games and game development tools, including the multi-award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, the iAward-winning Qantas airlines Joey Playbox games, and the popular Yarn Spinner narrative game framework. Previously, Paris was mobile product manager for Silicon Valley company, Meebo (acquired by Google). Paris particularly enjoys game design, statistics, law, machine learning, and human-centered technology and research, and writes technical books on mobile and game development (more than 20 so far) for O’Reilly Media (most recently releasing the Unity Game Development Cookbook and Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift). Recently, Paris has helped out international open-data hackathon, GovHack, as Program Manager. He is on the board of the AUC and the ACS (Tasmania), and holds a degree in medieval history and a PhD in computing. You can find him online at http://blog.paris.id.au and on Twitter @parisba.
Talks I've Given
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Game Engines and Machine Learning: Training a Self-Driving Car Without a Car?
Featuring Paris Buttfield-Addison
Are you a scientist who wants to test a research problem without building costly and complicated real-world rigs? A self-driving car engineer who wants to test their AI logic in a constrained virtual world? A data scientist who needs to solve a thorny real-world problem without touching a...
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How Do I Game Design? Design Games, Understand People!
Featuring Paris Buttfield-Addison
In this session, you’ll learn about game design: the art and science of constructing enjoyable, engaging games. We aren’t doing any coding, and we’re not talking game engine development – instead, we’ll be taking a deep dive into game design theory, using it to...
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Watch This Face: Designing the Same App on Multiple Wearable Platforms
Featuring Paris Buttfield-Addison
On the face of it, Android Wear and the Apple Watch are very similar: they’re both wristwatches, they’re both closely tied to your phone, and the tech media are unaccountably excited about both of them. But how do their differences affect you as a developer? This session explores what...
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How to build games for children
Featuring Paris Buttfield-Addison
In this session, I will summarise what we think makes a good children’s app from both a design and a technical perspective, with examples from our own work and others. Attendees will come away with a set of solid dos and don’ts for building mobile games for children.
What gestures are...
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Building iOS apps for IoT devices: a case study of the Holiday by MooresCloud
Featuring Paris Buttfield-Addison
Connected devices that support ‘hackable’ software development are becoming increasingly common: the Lifx, the Holiday by MooresCloud, Philips Hue, and so on.
This talk will explore the development of a number of iOS apps built for the Holiday by MooresCloud, including a device...
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