Acknowledgments

First of all, I'd like to thank the development editor for this tutorial, Lisa Thibault, for being determined, patient, enthusiastic, and encouraging. Also, thanks to tech editors Tom Jacobson and David Fox for providing valuable feedback and suggestions along the way. Thanks to Charles Alderton, whose creation has kept me motivated throughout the years. Thanks to my parents, who had the intuition to make sure I had access to computers as I was growing up, whether it was a PC in high school, those incredibly fast 286 machines in my Dad's office, or the Epson QX-10 in 1985. And of course, thanks to my friends and the rest of my family, who never stopped asking, "Is the tutorial done yet?" or demanding, "Finish the tutorial!" Naturally, though, the real gratitude goes to the countless programmers and computer scientists who were intelligent enough to come up with all these game coding ideas in the first place, and who were wise enough to share their ideas.

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