Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified [With CDROM]
Jobe Makar · 2002
From the Publisher: As Flash has matured, a growing population of intermediate to advanced Flash users has emerged who are eager to learn what else they can do with the popular program. Game development is an obvious answer. Unafraid to tackle some of the more complicated aspects of game creation (including physics and trigonometry!), this comprehensive reference covers it all. Macromedia Flash Game Design Demystified starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. Readers tackle simple-logic and quiz games before moving on to multiplayer and complex-logic games (chess, for example)learning about importing 3-D graphics, adding sound effects, and licensing their games in the process. The accompanying CD includes not only the source files for a number of games but also the tutorials and lessons that go along with the book as well as XML server software to facilitate multiplayer games. Intermediate to advanced Flash site designers will find comprehensive coverage of sophisticated techniquesbut put in easy-to-grasp, practical terms.