Luke Dicken is the founder of Robot Overlord Games, and a researcher with the Strathclyde Artificial Intelligence and Games group at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. He is a three-time IGDA Scholar, contributes to AltDevBlogADay and is one of the organisers for the web-based AltDev Conference series. Luke has been passionate about artificial intelligence since playing "Creatures" as a teenager, and pursued it at university, first through several degrees in traditional AI before specialising in AI for games as part of a PhD he is still (occasionally) pursuing. Luke is a director for IGDA Scotland, a member of the AI Game Programmers Guild and chair of the IGDA's Special Interest Group on AI.

Luke is available for contract development and speaking engagements.