Dave Voyles is a Software Engineer at Comcast in Philadelphia where he works on their Xbox Xfinity app for video streaming. In addition to that, he's an independent game developer who has launched titles on Xbox Live Indie Games, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and the web browser.

Dave is also an Xbox MVP and Managing Editor of Armless Octopus, a blog which provides coverage for independent gaming news, review, and previews. When he's not writing about Indies, he's supporting them through the Indie Games Uprising. As a coordinator for the Uprising, he works closely with developers and Microsoft to promote the best titles on Xbox Live Indies Games which take advantage of Microsoft's XNA framework.

Finally, Dave is also the author of another Packt Publishing book, The UnrealScript Game Programming Cookbook.

You can find more of his work at www.DavidVoyles.wordpress.com or saying hello on twitter at his handle, @DaveVoyles.