Contributors

About the author

Vahé Karamian is a software consultant and author based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder of Noorcon Inc., a software consulting firm in Burbank, CA, providing services in the field of augmented reality and virtual reality used in the entertainment, architecture, medical, and manufacturing industries. He has lectured in state and private universities on topics including Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Game Design and Development.

I would like to acknowledge my wife, Armineh, and our two beautiful children, Maximilian and Makayla, for their support through the long nights in the preparation of this book. Thank you and love you.

About the reviewers

Adam Larson started programming professionally in 2005. He has shipped 14 console games, 2 PC titles, and 8 mobile games. In 2012, he founded a company that focused on using Unity for business applications. He spent the following 5 years building a million dollar agency that built high-end software. Recently, he moved to another start-up that focuses on revolutionizing the banking industry. When he isn't doing something with technology, you will find him spending time with his wife and three kids.

 

Francesco Sapio has a master's of science in engineering in AI and Robotics, scoring summa cum laude. Now, he is a PhD researcher. He is a Unity and Unreal expert. Among his many projects, he developed Gea2 (Sapienza), Sticker Book (Dataware Games), and consulted for Prosperity – Italy 1434, Mi Rasna (Entertainment Game Apps, Inc), and Projekt I.D (RMIT). He is an active writer on game development, authoring Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development, Unity UI Cookbook, and many others. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but mostly loves creating video games.

I'm deeply thankful to my family for their enthusiasm and support throughout my life; they have always encouraged me to do better with the Latin expressions "Ad maiora" and "Per aspera ad astra". Finally, a huge thanks to all the special people around me whom I love, in particular to my sweetheart; I’m grateful for all your help in everything.

 

Michael Miles is a manufacturing engineer working in the aerospace industry by day and a Unity game designer, C#, JavaScript, and Python developer at all other times. With these skills and upon discovering Unity3D and Blender, Michael began creating interactive training and production-ready instruction tools for the assembly of the aircraft his company builds.

When not in front of a computer screen, he likes to play games with family and friends or immerse himself in books from fantasy to theoretical physics.

Thanks to my parents for always being there, supporting every decision I made, however unwise you thought it was at the time.

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