Jim Perry

Jim Perry is a Microsoft XNA MVP with more than 15 years of development experience. He worked in the gaming industry for three of those years, contributing to five games during that period. He currently works during the day for a company doing .NET Windows and Web apps development and at night spends most of his time in game development related activities.

Allen Sherrod

Allen Sherrod has written five books on various game development topics. He has also written for Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com and has contributed to Game Programming Gems 6. Currently Allen is the owner of Re-Inventing Games & Graphics, Inc., which he plans to use to enter the independent game development scene.