Irresistible Apps: Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities

Acknowledgments

There were so many people who were involved in the making of this book that I will not do them all the justice they deserve in this section, but let it be known that to all those listed, and all those who I may have overlooked, I am deeply thankful.

Thank you to professors Jim Whitehead and Noah Wardrip-Fruin at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who helped shape my nebulous ideas into the pattern library they eventually became. Also thank you to my technical reviewers, Sebastian Deturding, Richard N. Landers, Marty Resnick, and Timothy Wood, who worked tirelessly to ensure the accuracy of the text.

Thanks to all the staff at Apress who put up with my bemused emailing and tardy editing, particularly Chris Nelson for steering ...