About the Reviewers

Mitch Allen has worked on software projects for Lotus, IBM, Dragon, Nuance, Yahoo, and Intuit. He specializes in everything from Enterprise Web Apps to Mobile. He currently lives and works in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit his website at: http://mitchallen.com.

Nicholas Golden can be found coding furiously away working on dozens of games and applications simultaneously. He is also heavily involved with helping others out and will go out of his way to assist. He is an accomplished professional with a jack of all trades, master of a few approach in key areas such as music composition and games, specifically game development. His thinking is extremely eccentric but focused, abstract but concentrated which results in approaching problem solving in non-standard ways while avoiding the status quo.

Nicholas Golden runs an indie development studio, information regarding his adventures can be found at: www.NicholasGolden.com and www.AngryCarrot.com.

Alan Grace is a co-founder of Pixel Wolf Studios, an Indie game development studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Having worked for a number of years in Web and graphic design running his own company Alpha Solutions, Alan has a vast area of expertise across multimedia and game design. He recently completed his MSc in Digital Games and set up Pixel Wolf Studios moving his focus into game development for the iOS and Google Play Store.

Pixel Wolf Studios was established in 2011 and currently has three titles in development for the iOS and Google Play Store. All three are due for release in 2012 and will be developed using Corona SDK. For more information visit www.pixelwolfstudios.com.

Clement Ho is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Abilene Christian University. He has a strong passion for mobile and web development which has led him to pursue multiple freelance and independent projects. He has developed for the iOS and BlackBerry platform using Corona SDK, xCode and Adobe Air technologies.

Steve Hoffman (also known as Captain Hoff) is a high tech serial entrepreneur. He's currently involved in Playkast, a stealth startup that will be launching a new type of entertainment platform later this year.

Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television's Interactive Media Group and was the Chairman and Founder of the San Francisco Chapter of the Producers Guild. He is also as serving on the Board of Governors for the New Media Council.Hoffman and co-founded LavaMind, which publishes Founders Space, as well as numerous websites, games and mobile applications.

In 2007, Hoffman founded RocketOn, a social media and virtual world startup. Prior to this, Hoffman was the COO of Tap11 (formerly Zannel), a venture-funded startup that provides businesses with advanced analytics and CRM for Twitter.

Before that, Hoffman was the North American Studio Head for Infospace, where he ran the US mobile games publishing and development group. While in Los Angeles, Hoff was the Chairman and CEO of Spiderdance, Hollywood's leading interactive television studio, whose customers included NBC, Viacom, Time Warner, TBS, GSN and A&E. He also consulted for R/GA Interactive, designing projects for Kodak, Disney, Intel, AdAge, and the Children's Television Workshop.

In Japan, Hoffman worked as a game designer for Sega, generating new concepts and designs for games and amusement rides. Prior to Sega, he was a Hollywood development executive at Fries Entertainment, where he managed TV development. He graduated from the University of California with a BS in Electrical Computer Engineering and went on to earn a Masters in Film and Television from USC. He is also the co-author of the first-edition of Game Design Workshop published by CMP.

Predrag is a renaissance man who is interested in a number of different subjects. His primary areas of interest are programming and digital and traditional art. He also likes to spend his free time painting and exploring robotics and interactive design. In the last 12 years, Predrag has worked as a Technical and Art Director on many interactive projects, published over 40 online games, and has participated in a production of several iPhone projects. He has a strong background in ActionScript, MEL script, and Lua. Predrag is a member of MENSA International and has a number of professional certificates in different areas.

Walter is the creator of Corona SDK.

In a former life, he led the Adobe Flash Lite engineering team as lead architect. He has a track record of shipping successful products from mobile runtimes like Flash Lite to industry-standard desktop products such as Adobe Illustrator and Apple's Final Cut Pro.

Walter holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Swarthmore College, and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Edgar Miranda has been developing games since 2006, everything from simple action games, multiplayer turn base games, social games to mobile games. He's had several years of experience as a consultant working with technologies like Flash, Flex, and Corona SDK. He is the founder and owner of Pie Hammer Games (www.piehammer.com), which is focused on building mobile games for iOS and Android. You can check out his blog at: www.edgarmiranda.net.

Jordan Schuetz is currently a 17 year old high school student who will be attending college in the fall of 2012. Jordan has been developing with Corona from the age of 16 and has had success with the development software ever since.

He is the founder of Ninja Pig Studios which creates games and applications for mobile cellular devices. Ninja Pig Studios has released some very successful applications on iPhone, Android, Nook, and Kindle.  Their most popular application is called Gun App which reached the fourth spot in the Entertainment category on Nook. Annoying Pig Game was another hit which reached spot 34 in the Top New Free Games on the Google Play Store. The game is currently available for iPhone, Android, Nook, and Kindle.

In addition to owning his own company, Jordan has also been a great contributor to the Ansca Mobile community. He has become a Corona Ambassador and has been featured as a Case Study on the Ansca Mobile website.

Jordan has also developed a mobile application for an online shopping website called WeirdStuff which is a computer electronics store in the Silicon Valley. Jordan will be studying Computer Engineering in college and will continue working on application development throughout his college career.

Jayant Varma has been the IT Manager for BMW and Nissan dealership in Asia and the Middle East, an Academic lecturer in Australia before being a Technopreneur. With his diverse knowledge in the industry, he has founded OZ Apps a consultancy, specializing in mobile development, training and consulting services globally. He has a master's degree in Business and IT and is well versed with and has developed a wide range of languages including Assemble, dBase, Clipper, Pascal, C, C++, Obj-C, java, Visual Basic, and Lua to name a few. He has run workshops and has been a speaker for the AUC (Apple University Consortium), ACS (Australian Computer Society), and other organizations. He runs a blog, howto.oz-apps.com, that helps developers with tutorials on using lua-based frameworks for mobile development and review me.oz-apps.com that reviews software. He has to his credit over a dozen apps on the app store both personal and contractual that have been in the charts.