About the Author

Jorge Palacios is a software developer with seven years of professional experience. He has committed the last four years to game development working in various positions; from tool developer, to lead programmer. His main focus is AI and gameplay programming, and currently he works with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game development instructor, speaker, and game jam organizer.

You can find more about him on http://jorge.palacios.co

I'd like to dedicate this book to my parents; Betty and Elieser. They have given me all of their support for several years, and believed in me every step of the way. Words cannot express how grateful I am for having them in my life. This work is proof that dreams can be achieved when you turn them into goals.

Thanks to my partner in bits and codes, Christian Chomiak. His support and feedback is appreciated on every adventure, and every algorithm. Let's co-author the next book!

	"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulder of Giants"
	--Isaac Newton

I'll always be grateful to Ricardo Monascal and Carlos Pérez. Their support, friendship and guidance allowed be to become a big deal of the developer I am today. I have seen further because of you.

I'm really happy to have Andrés De León's artwork as cover image.

Thanks to Ruchita Bhansali, Usha Iyer, Kirti Patil, Deepti Tuscano, and all the Packt team involved in this project. They are an awesome team to work with, and I cannot express how grateful I am for their patience and support along the way. I learned a lot from you and the whole process of ting and finishing a book. This book is your as much as it is mine.