So you wanna be a hotshot game designer? Well, if you have a basic grasp of Macromedia Flash MX, you can. 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. You'll 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 your games in the process. The book's companion CD includes the source files for a number of games as well as the tutorials and lessons that go along with the book and XML server software to facilitate multiplayer games. If you're tired of the games that you have and want to make your own action, this book offers comprehensive coverage of sophisticated techniques--but put in easy-to-grasp, practical terms.

Macromedia Flash Mx Game Design Demystified: The Official Guide to Creating Games With Flash

Computers & Technology

Makar, Jobe

Games & Strategy Guides

Macmillan/Rand McNally

Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training From the Source teaches readers ActionScript using a hands-on, project-based approach. This book will be different in several ways. Instead of just explaining how scripting works, explains scripting by translating real-life activities into scripts, so that users can begin to see the association of how programming and scripting is something they instinctively already know how to do. Readers will be shown many methodologies and techniques for building nearly thirty real-life Flash ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more, enabling them to work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD-ROM contains all project files and images necessary for each project in the book.

Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source

Franklin, Derek

Web Development & Design

Macromedia Press

UntitledMacromedia Flash is the industry standard for designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites. In this first-of-a-kind reference, todayÕs top Flash developers share secrets and strategies for creating dynamic Flash applications. Written by leading members of the Flash programming community, each chapter of Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai focuses squarely on programming technique. While each chapter can stand alone, together they comprise the most complete compendium of Flash programming practices and techniques available. Focusing on real world projects and applications, the chapters cover such topics as JavaScript and Flash; optimizing 3D; integrating databases through ActionScripting, XML and Flash, and much more. Aimed at the intermediate to advanced developer, Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai contains the most comprehensive set of Flash programming techniques ever assembled in one book.

Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai

Arts & Photography

Kennedy, Allan

Oshman, Max

Williams, Michael Brandon

Dolecki, Eric

Grundvig, Mike

Hougesen, Klaus

Mauder, Til

Nielsen, Torben

Ramirez, Robertson

Shaw, Oliver

Stearns, Geoff

Photography & Video

Pearson/Education

If you're in the business of programming or developing online applications with Macromedia Flash, you've probably had moments when you wished you could turn to the real experts for advice on integrating server-side technologies. Now you can. Macromedia Flash MX: Creating Dynamic Applications shows you how both state-of-the-art and well-established server-side technologies coupled with Macromedia Flash MX can deliver powerful dynamic applications. More than just a step-by-step tutorial, this book provides the theory behind the powerhouse code used to process, integrate, and display dynamic data, focusing on tried-and-true middleware languages such as Java and ColdFusion, as well as newcomer ASP.NET, for integrating server-side data with Macromedia Flash MX. You'll get an "under the hood" look at the full source code used to develop a number of inspirational and practical online applications, including an entire Hotmail-style email system using Macromedia Flash MX as a front-end, an online poll, a message board, a multi-user avatar chat, a multiplayer game, and an instant messenger. You get all of the source code for the applications in Java, ColdFusion, and ASP.NET, making Macromedia Flash MX: Creating Dynamic Applications the perfect resource no matter what project you're working on.

Macromedia Flash MX: Creating Dynamic Applications

SMITH, Scott

Dolecki, Eric E

Grundvig, Michael

Sure, you can use Flash MX 2004 without being a master programmer, but as any Flash developer worth his or her salt will tell you, you're not tapping all of its power unless you're taking advantage of its scripting language "ActionScript 2.0" which offers a more robust programming model and better object-oriented programming support than ever before. Here to take the fear factor out of learning it are Flash veterans and best-selling authors Derek Franklin and Jobe Makar, who demonstrate that scripting is an instinctual process you already know by translating real-life activities into ActionScript scripts. In these pages, you'll find methodologies and techniques for building over 40 real-life Flash ActionScript projects, including sample games, --- applications, Web sites, and more. New in this edition are coverage of ActionScript 2.0, Web services, Components, Printing, Video, and more. On the companion CD, you'll find all the project files and images you need to complete each project.

Macromedia Flash Mx 2004 Actionscript: Training from the Source

As any Flash developer worth his or her salt knows, you’re not tapping all of the program’s power unless you’re taking advantage of its scripting language. Not to worry: With Flash 8’s improved scripting language (which includes a visual interface!) and this project-based guide you don’t have to be a master programmer to do so. In these pages authors Jobe Makar and Danny Patterson, use hands-on lessons and simple, step-by-step instructions to translate real-life activities into scripts, in the process demonstrating that scripting is something you already instinctively know how to do. To that end, the authors have provided methodologies and techniques for building nearly 40 real-life Flash 8 ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more—all of which will help you work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD contains all of the project files and images you’ll need to complete the book’s lessons.

Macromedia Flash 8 Actionscript: Training from the Source

Patterson, Danny

The demand for multiplayer games and virtual worlds has exploded over the last few years. Not only do companies want them for site stickiness through social networking, but developers have tremendous interest in exploring this niche area. While developing multiplayer content is challenging, it isn’t as difficult as you might think, and it is fun and highly rewarding! ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds explains fundamental multiplayer concepts from connecting to a server to real-time latency hiding techniques. In this book you’ll learn: 
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<li>How to connect users to achieve real-time interaction</li> </ul>
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<li>When to make decisions on the server versus the game client</li> </ul>
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<li>Time synchronization techniques</li> </ul>
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<li>How to use dead reckoning smoothing to hide network latency</li> </ul>
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<li>About tile-based games the isometric view</li> </ul>
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<li>Techniques for customizing and rendering avatars in a virtual world</li> </ul>
 In addition, you’ll learn everything that goes into building: <ul>
<li>A real-time multiplayer tank battle game</li> </ul>
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<li>A real-time multilayer cooperative game</li> </ul>
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<li>A virtual world</li> </ul>

ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds: Learn Multi-user Interaction Concepts from the Experts

Programming

New Riders Pub

Flash MX 2004 Game Design DemystifiedYour comprehensive guide to creating games using Flash MX 2004. It will take you through the process of creating a game in Flash MX 2004. The first several chapters introduce general processes for creating games, while the second section looks at the important concepts for creating realistic games. Such concepts include math, physics, collision detection, and collision reaction. A third section delves into more creative concepts: tile-based worlds, 3D visualization, artificial intelligence, using graphics, and using sound. Later chapters provide an introduction to multiplayer games, creating a high score list for games, and a selection games for which the authors share the development process, including code. The accompanying CD will provide the code for each function discussed in the book as well as working versions of the games.

Macromedia Flash Mx 2004 Game Design Demystified

Winiarczyk, Ben

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