Buttonless

Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them

Ryan Rigney

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Taylor & Francis Inc
15 December 2011

On the forefront of the mobile gaming revolution are real people with stories that are crazy, stressful, hilarious, and, in some cases, heart-wrenching. Written by respected video game journalist Ryan Rigney, with a foreword by John Davison, Buttonless tells the stories of the people behind the games.

Rigney takes you on a tour that covers more than 65 of the best and most beloved iPhone and iPad games, telling the never-before-heard tales behind them. Based on more than 100 exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in iOS development, Buttonless chronicles the adversities that top developers had to overcome and delivers numerous funny/interesting anecdotes from behind the scenes of the iTunes App Store. Examples include:

George Fan - Lead Designer of Plants vs. Zombies Kris Piotrowski - Co-creator of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP Jaakko Iisalo - Lead Designer of Angry Birds Katherine Anna Kang - Head of id Mobile and Lead Designer of Doom II RPG Justin Smith - Creator of Enviro-Bear 2010 Paul Bettner - Lead Designer of Words With Friends Simon Oliver - Creator of Rolando Donald Mustard - Lead Designer of Infinity Blade ...and plenty of others You'll also learn:

The real origins of Angry Birds

How iOS critical darling Jet Car Stunts was born from one of the worst games of 1999----Carmageddon 3

Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman's weird obsession with leaping out of windows

How the first-ever Iraqi video game went unpublished for 20 years before becoming an iOS exclusive

The tweet that saved Words With Friends

The napkin drawing that became the biggest-selling comic book series on the App Store

By: Ryan Rigney
Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781439895856
ISBN 10: 1439895856
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 15 December 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ryan Rigney is a freelance journalist who has covered the video-game industry from every angle for publications and sites including Gamasutra, PC Gamer and GamePro. He lives in Oxford, MS, where he is pursuing an education in journalism at Ole Miss' Meek School of Journalism and New Media.a

Reviews for Buttonless: Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them

An in-depth exploration of gaming's fastest growing space penned by one of its most avid and enthusiastic advocates. - Will Herring, reviews editor at GamePro Magazine The App Store is so incredibly fluid, the way Buttonless locks the wonderful little stories behind them in typographical amber is nothing short of a public service. - Justin McElroy, managing editor at Joystiq.com