{"id":189,"date":"2013-10-02T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amidos-games.com\/blog\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2022-06-01T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:59:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-350\" src=\"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I am Ahmed Khalifa. My online handle is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akhalifa.com\/\">Amidos<\/a>&#8220;, I am a Lecturer at the Institute of Digital Games and game developer\/designer. I have been making video games since I was 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Procedural Content Generation (PCG). My research is focused on PCG for games, especially level generation. Also, I work with tree search techniques for general video games. For more details check my <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I developed more than 10 finished games and more than 30 prototypes. For more details check my <a href=\"https:\/\/amidos2006.itch.io\/\">games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on tools for game designers to help them with either AI or PCG. If you are interested check my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/amidos2006\/\">Github<\/a> or talk with me over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amidos2006\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Ahmed Khalifa. My online handle is &#8220;Amidos&#8220;, I am a Lecturer at the Institute of Digital Games and game developer\/designer. I have been making video games since I was 12 years old. I am interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Procedural Content Generation (PCG). My research is focused on PCG for games, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}