Fiction

Occasionally (more often than not, lately) I pretend I can write fiction:

• The Chair (short story)
• Bolted Down (short story)
• The Last Session (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

  • English: Practical Simulations for Machine Learning (O’Reilly Media, 2022)
  • Chinese: 機器學習模擬應用｜將合成資料運用於AI (Gotop Information, 2022)

• Head First Swift

  • English: Head First Swift (O’Reilly Media, 2021)
  • Chinese: 深入淺出Swift程式設計 (Gotop Information, 2022)

• Unity Game Development Cookbook (First Edition)

  • English: Unity Game Development Cookbook (First Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2019)

• Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift

  • English: Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift (O’Reilly Media, 2019)
  • Chinese: Swift 人工智能实战：从基础理论到AI 驱动的应用程序开发 (China Machine Press, 2019)

• iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (Third Edition)

  • English: iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (Third Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2018)
  • Chinese: Swift游戏开发经典实例: iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (Third Edition) (Gotop Information, 2020)

• Learning Swift (Third Edition)

  • English: Learning Swift (Third Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2018)
  • Chinese: Swift 學習手冊 第三版 (Gotop Information, 2018)

• Mobile Game Development with Unity

  • English: Mobile Game Development with Unity (O’Reilly Media, 2017)
  • Japanese: Unityによるモバイルゲーム開発 ―作りながら学ぶ2D/3Dゲームプログラミング入門 (O’Reilly Japan, 2017)
  • Polish: Unity Tworzenie gier mobilnych. (Helion, 2018)
  • Chinese: Unity行動遊戲開發實務 (Gotop Information, 2018)

• Learning Swift (Second Edition)

  • English: Learning Swift (Second Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2017)

• The Kerbal Player’s Guide

  • English: The Kerbal Player’s Guide (O’Reilly Media, 2017)

• Learning Swift (First Edition)

  • English: Learning Swift (First Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2016)
  • Chinese: Swift学习手册 (China Electric Power Press, 2017)

• What’s New in Swift 3

  • English: What’s New in Swift 3 (O’Reilly Media, 2016)

• Swift Development for the Apple Watch

  • English: Swift Development for the Apple Watch (O’Reilly Media, 2016)

• iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (Second Edition)

  • English: iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook (Second Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2015)
  • Chinese: iOS Swift 遊戲程式開發錦囊妙計 第二版 (GoTop Information, 2015)

• Swift Development with Cocoa

  • English: Swift Development with Cocoa (O’Reilly Media, 2014)

• iOS Game Development Cookbook (First Edition)

  • English: iOS Game Development Cookbook (First Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2014)

• Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (Fourth Edition)

  • English:Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (Fourth Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2014)

• Learning Cocoa With Objective-C (Third Edition)

  • English: Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (Third Edition) (O’Reilly Media, 2012)
  • Portuguese: Aprendendo Cocoa com Objective-C (Novatec, 2013)
  • Chinese: Cocoa學習手冊：使用Objective-C(第三版) (GoTop Information, 2013)

• Gamification: how we can use game mechanics in areas that are not a game

  • English: Gamification: how we can use game mechanics in areas that are not a game (Media Evolution, 2011)

• Unity Mobile Game Development for Dummies

  • English: Unity Mobile Game Development for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2011)

• iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies

  • English: iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2010)
  • French: Développer des jeux pour iPhone et iPad pour les Nuls (Wiley Publishing, 2011)

Selected Papers

I also occasionally put my PhD to use, and pretend to be an academic. Here are some of the papers I’ve written:

• Buttfield-Addison, P., Manning, J., & Nugent, T. (2016). A better recipe for game jams: using the Mechanics Dynamics Aesthetics framework for planning. In proceedings of the International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events 2016.
• Manning, J., Buttfield-Addison, P., Nugent, T, & Lueg, C. (2015). User Interfaces in Science Fiction in Video Games. Presented at OzCHI 2015, workshop on HCI and Science-Fiction: Inspirations, Achievements, or a Mismatch 2015.
• Nugent, T., Buttfield-Addison, P., Lueg, C., & Dermoudy, J. (2015). “It’s useless for that”: Finding, Frustration, and Fun with Mobile Technology in Outdoor Markets. In proceedings of 2015 Joint APSA-ASCEPT Annual Conference 2015.
• Chalmers, L., Bereznicki, L., Prasad, R., Hancock, N., MacIntyre, PD., McKenzie, DS., Boland, CM., Frain, B., & Buttfield-Addison, P. (2015). SMART-AF: Development of a decision support smartphone app to improve antithrombotic prescribing in atrial fibrillation. In proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
• Buttfield-Addison, P., Lueg, C., & Ellis, L. (2013). iPad as PIM device: input, interrelation and indexes. In proceedings of iConference 2013.
• Buttfield-Addison, P., Lueg, C., Ellis, L., & Manning, J. (2012). “Everything goes into or out of the iPad” – the iPad, information scraps and personal information management. In proceedings of OZCHI 2012.
• Burns, P., Buttfield-Addison, P., D’Orazio, M., & Nugent, T. (2011). The Serendipity Engine. OZCHI 2011 Design Challenge.
• Manning, J. A., Lueg, C., & Buttfield-Addison, P. S. (2009). Avoiding creepy people: social networks increasing the pleasure of carpooling. OZCHI 2009.
• Buttfield-Addison, P., & Lueg, C. (2009). The pile of least effort: supporting lived document management practices. In proceedings of OZCHI 2009.