About the Reviewer

Allen Sherrod is currently a senior iOS developer of interactive apps with several apps in the iTunes store which includes DreamWorks movies such as Rise of the Guardians, and the upcoming film, The Croods. Allen started with programming in high school as he learned OpenGL and Direct3D for the first time. From there he took to game development as a hobby throughout college, wrote several books on the topic, and now he currently creates interactive storybook and comic apps for mobile platforms.

He has also authored and co-authored several books such as Essential XNA Game Studio 2.0 Programming, Jones & Bartlett Publishers; Data Structures and Algorithms for Game Developers, Charles River Media; and Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming, Course Technology PTR, to name a few.