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	February 10, 2012

		Analyst questions validity of unusual January NPD results [3]

		DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover

		DICE 2012: Insomniac's Price on Quality Of Life, ditching the 'Loser' badge [2]


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	February 10, 2012

		Principles of an Indie Game Bottom Feeder [18]

		Postmortem: CyberConnect 2's Solatorobo: Red the Hunter [1]

		Jerked Around by the Magic Circle - Clearing the Air Ten Years Later [39]

		Building the World of Reckoning [4]

		SPONSORED FEATURE: TwitchTV - How to Build Community Around Your Game in 2012 [13]

		Happy Action, Happy Developer: Tim Schafer on Reimagining Double Fine [9]

		Building an iOS Hit: Phase 1 [11]

		Postmortem: Appy Entertainment's SpellCraft School of Magic [5]

Damian Isla

Damian Isla is the AI programmer on Halo 2. Before coming to Bungie, he earned a M.Eng. at the MIT Media Lab with Bruce Blumberg's Synthetic Characters Group, where he did research on learning and behavior for artificial creatures. His master's thesis, "The Virtual Hippocampus", dealt with useful spatial representations for learning, navigating and conceptualizing space. He has a B.S. in Computer Science, also from MIT. He enjoys drama of all kinds.

Features by Damian Isla:
GDC 2005 Proceeding: Handling Complexity in the Halo 2 AI [03.11.05]