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Develop your own 3D elearning game using gamification, systems design, and gameplay programming techniques About This Book Develop a game framework for a 3D eLearning game Program dynamic interactive actors and objects to populate your game world An easy-to-follow guide along with an extensive source code to support and guide readers through...

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Solving complex optimization problems with parallelmetaheuristics

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