Raymond Arifianto

Raymond Arifianto spends his days helping game studios navigate the treacherous waters of online game development. After working on platforms like Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and franchises like Need for Speed and Fable, he's collected enough development disaster stories to fill a book. So he did. When not writing about philosophical rabbits or debugging server catastrophes, he tries to make online game development less mysterious through his podcast "Boring Launch." A firm believer that the best development stories start with "you're not going to believe this," he decided to write "First-Chance Exception" to share the chaos, camaraderie, and occasional triumph of turning single-player games into online services. He lives happily in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife, kids, and pets.