Speaker - Paris Buttfield-Addison
Biography
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is the co-founder of independent game development studio Secret Lab. He serves as producer, and helps to maintain the popular open source interactive dialogue system, Yarn Spinner (https://yarnspinner.dev/). Secret Lab is currently working on Night in the Woods, the BAFTA- and IGF-winning adventure game that’s powered by Yarn Spinner. Paris has written nearly 30 technical books on game development, machine learning, mobile apps, and rocket science for O’Reilly Media, and has a PhD in why people’s desks are messy. He loves AI, video games, and dogs. Find him on Twitter @parisba
Presentations
- Let’s Make a Game – Saturday 11:40 a.m.–12:25 p.m. in Kia Ora Theatre