Professional Windows® Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF a project of this size and duration is never the sole effort of the author(s). I could not have succeeded without the influence and support of the following people:

• Melynda, who does the impossible every day and makes it look easy.

• Lisa, Nicki, Logan, Abigail, and Max; I hope this proves anything is possible if you try hard enough.

• Georgie, my co-author. Dude! We did it!

• Greg and Paul, co-founders of Magenic, who gave me room to grow for the last five years, without which this book might have never existed.

• My good friends Amanda and Rachel, who convinced me that life is too short to pass up experiencing everything you can.

I'd also like to thank Andy "The ZMan" Dunn for taunting me with the grisly remains of my past failed projects. Your personal "support" was truly motivating. Failure was not an option.

To the rest of my friends and family, who waited patiently for me to finish this book and rejoin society: It's party time!

— Chris G. Williams

FIRST AND FOREMOST, I would just like to give my love and thanks to my family. Shawna, Gareth, Owen, Reece, and Tennyson, thanks for not forgetting who I was, even though at times you probably wanted to! I love you!

Chris, thanks for giving me this opportunity to meet a life goal. Couldn't have done it without you! Thanks for taking years off your life staying up late and working through this book with me. Can't believe we did it!

To the XNA community on the forums, IRC, and Twitter, thanks for keeping my ...