
About the Reviewers
Asema Hassan is a game developer, AI researcher, and tutor. She is currently writing her master’s thesis at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. Her major research focus is on artificial intelligence in games. She also works part time at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, where she develops 3D VR simulations in Unity along with her team.
She previously worked in Pakistan's game industry for almost 3 years. At Agnitus, she worked as a software engineer for more than 2 years and developed various 2D/2.5D games for Android/iOS. She has deep knowledge of Unity Engine, C#, and C++. She is also a supervisor for the PakGamers community, where her main responsibility is to guide new students on the game development process.
She likes to travel a lot and take photographs. You can find out more about her on http://asemahassan.blogspot.de.
Engin Polat has been involved in many large-scale and medium-scale projects on .NET technologies as a developer, architect, and consultant and has won many awards since 1999.
Since 2008, he has been conducting training for many large enterprises in Turkey on Windows development, web development, distributed application development, software architecture, mobile development, cloud development, and so on.
Apart from this, he organizes seminars and events in many universities in Turkey on .NET technologies, Windows platform development, cloud development, web development, game development, and so on.
He shares his experiences on his personal blog (http://www.enginpolat.com).
He has MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT certifications.
In 2012, he was recognized as a Windows development MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft, and in 2017, he got recognized as a Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP too.
Between 2013 and 2015, he was recognized as a Nokia Developer Champion; very few people in the world are given this award. In 2015, he was recognized as the regional director by Microsoft.
He has worked on several books by Packt, including Mastering Cross Platform with Xamarin, Xamarin Blueprints, Xamarin by Example, and Mastering Xamarin UI Development.