Books-and-Events

⚠️ I’m happy to be invited to speak at events on a range of topics, including game development and design, artifical intelligence, the intersection and implications of technology and creativity, space, technology, and beyond. Email me at paris AT paris.id.au to chat. You can find a bio and headshots here. Upcoming Events 2025 Speaking: TasICT Tas Tech Fest 2025, March 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Session: Hidden Secrets of the Video Game Industry Speaking: ACS EdCAT (Australian Computer Society Education Careers and Tech Summit), April 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Session: Careers, video games, and technology Speaking: NarraScope 2025, June 2025, Philadelphia, NY, USA Session: Mathematically Proving Your Stories Have No Bugs Helping: Screen Tasmania’s Level Up Tasmania 2025, August 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Organising: AUC /dev/world/2025, September 2025, Melbourne, Australia Organising: AUC XWorld 2025, September 2025, Melbourne, Australia Past Events 2025 Speaking: TasICT Tapas & Tech: Creative Technologies, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Session: Yarn Spinner Attending: South Australian Game Exhibition 2025, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Session: Yarn Spinner Workshop for Game Development Studios 2024 Speaking: It Takes a Spark!...

Fiction Occasionally (more often than not, lately) I pretend I can write fiction: The Chair (short story) Bolted Down (short story) Books For nearly 15 years, I wrote a lot of technical books, initially for Wiley, and then for O’Reilly Media. I’m currently taking a deliberate break from writing books, but hope to return to it in the future. Unity Development Cookbook Second Edition English: Unity Development Cookbook Second Edition (O’Reilly Media, 2023) Practical Simulations for Machine Learning...