Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified or New Perspectives on JavaScript Comprehensive

Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified: The Official Guide to Creating Games with Flash

Author: Jobe Makar

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.

Booknews

Written for developers familiar with Flash, this guide explains techniques for automating, repeating, and governing the actions of games. The first half of the book describes collision detection and reactions, tile-based worlds, artificial intelligence algorithms, graphics and sound, while the second half walks through the ActionScript code and functions of six sample games. The CD-ROM contains example files and a trial version of Flash MX. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Getting Started
Ch. 1	First Steps	3
Ch. 2	The Plan: From Idea to Design	17
Pt. 2	Examining the Nuts and Bolts
Ch. 3	Trigonometry 101	33
Ch. 4	Basic Physics	57
Ch. 5	Collision Detection	83
Ch. 6	Collision Reactions	135
Ch. 7	Tile-Based Worlds	161
Ch. 8	The Isometric Worldview	189
Ch. 9	Artificial Intelligence	227
Ch. 10	Using a High Score List	261
Ch. 11	Graphics in Games	273
Ch. 12	The Sound of Games	321
Ch. 13	Dissecting a Chat	349
Pt. 3	The Games
Ch. 14	Word Search	375
Ch. 15	Ice World: A Platform Game	401
Ch. 16	Pinball	437
Ch. 17	Tic-Tac-Toe: Your First Multiplayer Game	459
Ch. 18	9-Ball	475
Ch. 19	Don't Fall!	503
	App. A: Protecting Your Games	525
	App. B: Multiuser Servers	535
App. C	The ElectroServerAS Object	553
	App. D: XML Basics in Flash	577
	App. E: Developer Resources	591
	App. F: Other Games	601
	Index	605

Read also Fatigue as a Window to the Brain or Neurogenic Bladder a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

New Perspectives on JavaScript, Comprehensive

Author: Partrick Carey

This book uses a practical, step-by-step approach to provide comprehensive instruction on basic to advanced JavaScript concepts.