Foreword: The Legend of Kyle, Game Hero

by Brent Simmons for Kyle Richter's book on writing games

You picked up the right book. You're awesome! You're awesome and you want to write games. Cool. If I wanted to learn to write games, what I'd do is park myself at Kyle Richter's house and make him teach me. But then we'd get distracted, and some friends would be in town, and we'd end up going out and I'd learn nothing. Lucky us, lucky you and me both—we have this book. Whew.

Let me tell you a bit about the author. Folks in the developer community will tell you that “Kyle Richter” is of course a pseudonym. You may recognize the name from one of Tom Clancy's novels: “Kyle Richter” is a highly trained, highly experienced covert ops agent who retired ...

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