Jesse Glover is a self-taught software developer and indie game developer who has worked with multiple game engines and has written many tutorials on the subject of game development over the past 8 years. He maintains a YouTube channel dedicated to game development made easy and writes for Zenva in his spare time to teach the ins and outs of game development with Unity, CryEngine, and Unreal Engine, just to name a few. Jesse has also written Unity Programming for Human Beings.
I'd like to express my deepest appreciation and special gratitude to the Packt Editorial team that helped me complete this book, especially Francis Carneiro and Sachin Sunilkumar. I'd also like to thank Larissa Pinto for giving me this book idea and all the developers and engineers who created the tools utilized in this book. I'd like to thank my reviewers, and my girlfriend, Summer Wang, who pushed me to do my best.
Neil Alexander is a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he earned a master's in computer science with a specialization in intelligent and interactive systems. As part of his education, he worked on developing several virtual reality demos and data visualization applications. He graduated from the Don Bosco Institute of Technology, and has also worked as a research analyst at an IT publishing firm in Mumbai. He currently works as a data scientist with several blockchain and cryptocurrency start-ups in the Washington D.C. area.
Micheal Lanham is a proven software and tech innovator with 20 years of experience. He has developed a broad range of software applications, including games, graphic, web, desktop, engineering, artificial intelligence, GIS, and machine learning applications for a variety of industries. He was introduced to Unity in 2006 and has been an avid developer, consultant, manager, and author of multiple Unity games, graphic projects, and books since. Micheal lives in Calgary, Canada, with his family.
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