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Game Programming
Matt Rutledge
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To Jenai. Thank you.

Acknowledgments
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here are so many people who made this book possible for me. First I would like
to thank Andr LaMothe for giving me this opportunity. I would also like to
thank my editor, Dan Foster, for all of his hard work. I also need to thank my
company, DATA Inc. (datausa) for understanding my rigorous schedule. Thank
you to Mike Gesner (President and CEO), Michael Melson (Technical Director), Randy
Chong (Game Design Director), Wesley Potter (Game Designer), and Jonathan Shusta
(Art Director) of Dragonfly Game Design (dragonflygamedesign) for making
the MMO possible. Without you guys this book wouldn’t have been as cool as it is. I would
also like to thank Jenai for being my constant support and putting up with my odd hours,
odd moods, and general weirdness throughout the creation of this whole book.
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