Thank you to my wife, Jennifer, and kids—Jeremiah, Kayleigh, Kaitlyn, and Kourtney—for keeping me on my toes and getting me out of the office from time to time for a needed break! Special thanks to artists Ari Feldman (www.flyingyogi.com) and Reiner Prokein (www.reinerstileset.de) for the 2D sprite artwork used in the examples and final game (without their free collections of sprites, Galactic War would have featured programmer art—yikes!). A big thank you to Emi Smith, Jenny Davidson, and Dustin Clingman.