About

About

Hi to all and welcome to my blog! I am Andrew Calleja and I currently work as a game developer at a company called Socialpoint (part of the Take-Two Interactive). My interests are games, game-programming, digital art and fantasy/historical fiction books amongst other things. Hope we can share thoughts and ideas.

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Resume/Curriculum Vitae
Code Repository

 

Publications

Papers

• A Domain-Specific Embedded Language Approach for the Scripting of Game Artificial Intelligence, in the Proceedings of the University of Malta Workshop in ICT (WICT’09), 2009
• Scripting Game AI An Alternative Approach using Embedded Languages, in the Proceedings of the University of Malta Workshop in ICT (WICT’10), 2010

Both with Gordon Pace as co-author.

Theses

• MSc: Embedded Scripting Languages for Game Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta, 2010
• BSc: Model Checking Games, University of Malta, 2007

Both with Gordon Pace as supervisor.

 

Reading list

Some books I recommend by category.

Fantasy

• The Colour of Magic by Terry Prachett

Historical Fiction

• World Without End by Ken Follett
• The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
• The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

Games and Game Development

• Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom
• Un Pasado Mejor by Atila Merino Redondo

Miscellaneous

• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
• The Four by Scott Galloway
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho