Windows Phone 8
Game Development
A practical guide to creating games for the
Windows Phone 8 platform
Marcin Jamro
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Windows Phone 8 Game Development
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First published: September 2013
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Credits
Author
Marcin Jamro
Reviewer
Dave Voyles
Acquisition Editor
Edward Gordon
Lead Technical Editor
Anilia Vincent
Technical Editors
Manal Pednekar
Veena Pagare
Monica John
Pratik More
Shali Sasidharan
Project Coordinator
Rahul Dixit
Proofreaders
Clyde Jenkins
Dirk Manuel
Indexers
Tejal R. Soni
Priya Subramani
Production Coordinator
Nitesh Thakur
Cover Work
Nitesh Thakur
About the Author
Marcin Jamro is the developer and architect of various kinds of applications,
such as web, mobile, and distributed ones. He is interested in many aspects of
computer science, including software engineering and project management. Marcin
is passionate about C#, C++, and C languages, design patterns, various technologies,
and mobile devices, especially the Windows Phone platform.
He has practical experience in project development and holds the position of Chief
Executive Ofcer at JAMROTECH Sp. z o.o. [Ltd.] (Rzeszow, Poland) which consists
of activities like IT projects development, consulting, as well as conducting training.
He also works at Rzeszow University of Technology and is writing a PhD thesis
regarding real-time software engineering.
Marcin has published several papers, taken part in many conferences and organized
a few of them, as well as participated in two internships at Microsoft in Redmond
(USA). He has Microsoft Certied Professional, Microsoft Certied Technology
Specialist, and Microsoft Certied Professional Developer certicates. More
information about Marcin is available at his website:
http://jamro.biz. You
can easily contact him by sending an e-mail message to marcin@jamro.biz.
