About the Reviewers

David Crebbin has spent most of his working life developing and architecting client-side applications, with the vast majority of his projects utilizing ActionScript. He's a firm believer in the technology and what it can offer, along with its amazingly creative developer community. He has used the Flash platform to build both small and large scale applications covering e-learning, gaming, and television.

Prashanth Hirematada is the founder of Gamantra, a game technology company focused on Network engine and server platform. Prior to founding Gamantra in 2006, he was a Chief Architect at Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd., where he was responsible for creating a common game development platform for all MMOG initiatives at Shanda. He joined Shanda in 2004 through Shanda's acquisition of Zona, Inc., a MMOG game technology company, headquartered in Santa Clara, U.S.A. At Zona, as a Technical Chief Architect, he was responsible for server-side architecture and implementation of MMOG framework. Prior to joining Zona in 2001, Prashanth worked in various Silicon Valley based technology start-up companies developing software at various levels for well over seven years.

His Master's thesis was a distributed implementation of the Message Passing Library (MPI) on a heterogeneous network of workstations including Solaris, HP-UX, OpenStep, and Windows-NT. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Sacramento, California, in 1994 and his B.S. in Computer Science from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India in 1992. He can be contacted at <prash@gamantra.com>.

Sergey Suchok graduated in 2004 with honors from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) and has since then been keen on Information Technology. He is currently working in the banking area and prepares to defend his thesis on the modeling of banking operations. Sergey is the co-author of more than 40 articles and has participated in more than 20 scientific and practical conferences devoted to the economic and mathematical modeling. He is a member of the "New Atlantis" Youth Public Organization (newatlantida.org.ua) and devotes his leisure time to environmental protection issues, the historical and patriotic development and popularization of a grateful attitude toward the Earth. He is also developing a social network for Kombucha's owners called Latusho, and he writes poetry and short stories and makes macramé.

I would like to express gratitude to the author for this opportunity to improve my knowledge of game development, as well as to Packt Publishing for providing such an interesting experience in the review process.