About the Reviewers

Michael Schuld started his foray into game development using Managed DirectX 9, and after playing with the framework for a few months, decided that there wasn't enough beginner content out in the world to help people new to game development get started.

To fix this problem, he immediately set out writing a tutorial series that he kept up-to-date with the change from Managed DirectX to XNA, and all the updates to the XNA Framework since then. Along with these tutorials, he hosted a popular XNA Game Development forum and has helped hundreds of programmers new to game development get their feet wet. The site and tutorials have been listed by Microsoft and Game Informer as one of a select list of community resources for anyone wanting to learn the XNA Framework.

More recently, he has expanded his work into DirectX 11 and reviewing books in the game development arena. His recent work, tutorials, and reviews can all be found on http://www.thehazymind.com.

Pedro Daniel Güida Vázquez is the owner of Pulsar Coders, an indie company that develops video games for many platforms. He enjoys working daily on everything related to video game development. Economist, System Analyst, Professor, Microsoft MVP for DirectX and XNA are some of the accomplishments obtained by him throughout his life. His skills cover many areas in the field, both technical and artistic, and he is always looking for interesting challenges to extend his personal and professional goals. You can find a comprehensive biography of this reviewer at http://www.linkedin.com/in/pedroguida.