Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo - Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development: Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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To Dad, who spoiled me with computers to keep learning. I miss you. Also, to my wife, for reminding me of what I am capable of.

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo works as a senior Unity developer at Product Madness, London. He was a game development career coordinator at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) and has taught game development at many other Argentine universities, such as UTN, UAI, and USAL, and institutions such as Image Campus and DaVinci, since 2012. Nicolas has been a Unity Certified Instructor since 2019, teaching high-profile Unity clients all around the globe. He was an MMO client-side developer at Band of Coders in Argentina and has been a Unity freelance developer since 2012.

Levent Alpsal is a senior software and game developer. In 2008, he started working on web-based projects, developing for the backend using PHP and SQL.

He started his focus on Unity and C# in 2015, working on many exciting simulation projects using Unity, VR, motion platforms, and other technologies at Sanlab Simulation. He has also developed many indie games and attended global game jams.

In 2020, he started his own company in the UK, Reenim Software LTD, providing software and Unity development services globally.

Levent likes to develop creative DIY solutions to daily real-life problems using 3D printing, thermoplastics, and K'Nex. He is the proud designer of a remote-controlled model tank. Currently, he lives in London with his lovely wife and wonderful son.

Sungkuk Park is a Berlin-based game developer. He majored in art studies at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, but later became a software engineer in the gaming industry. He is interested in almost everything about gaming. He is now on his way to becoming a technical artist!

Here is a list of his publications:

• Authored Seamless Society, 21 July 2020, in collaboration with an online exhibition platform DDDD
• Authored Wallpeckers: Breaking down the barriers between media, an article for the Korean art magazine Misulsegye, in March 2019
• Authored The Possibility of the Impossibility of the "Art Games", an article for the Korean art magazine Misulsegye, in February 2017
• Translated and edited Game Level Generation Using Neural Networks, a featured post of Gamasutra