About the Reviewer

Christer Kaitila, B.Sc., is a veteran video game developer with 17 years of professional experience. A hardcore gamer, dad, dungeon master, artist, and musician, he never takes himself too seriously and loves what he does for a living: making games!

A child of the arcade scene, he programmed his first video game in the eighties, long before the Internet or hard drives existed. The first programming language he ever learned was 6809 assembly language, followed by BASIC, Turbo Pascal, VB, C++, Lingo, PHP, JavaScript, and finally ActionScript. He grew up as an elite BBS sysop in the MS-DOS era and was an active member of the demoscene in his teens. He put himself through university by providing freelance software programming services for clients. Since then, he has been an active member of the indie game development community and is known by his fellow indies as Breakdance McFunkypants.

Christer frequently joins game jams to keep his skills sharp. Over the years, he has programmed puzzle games, multiplayer RPGs, action titles, shooters, racing games, chat-rooms, persistent online worlds, browser games, and many business applications for clients ranging from 3D displays for industrial devices to simulations made for engineers.

He is the author of the book Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D, Molehill, Game Programming Beginner's Guide, and is about to publish Game Jam Survival Guide.

He runs a popular news website called www.videogamecoder.com, which boasts over 30,000 articles and zero ads. He is one of the Administrators of Ludum Dare. His client work portfolio is available at www.orangeview.net and his personal game development blog is www.mcfunkypants.com, where you can read more about the indie game community and his recent projects.

He lives in Victoria, Canada with his beloved wife and the cutest baby son you've ever seen.