Creating games with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is a rewarding endeavor for aspiring and seasoned programmers alike. With its quick download time, cross-platform deployment, ease of use, and power, Flash is quickly becoming the program of choice for online game development. The use of vector graphics also makes the games scalable for any resolution from full screen to cell phone. Intended for both game and Web developers, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Development teaches developers how to maximize Flash for the creation of online and standalone games. The entire development process is covered, from design, story and character development, to the physics and motion of a game, audio issues, optimization, and deployment. As you work through the book, you'll create eight fun games as you learn and apply the tools of Flash. After completing these projects, you'll be ready to produce your own high-quality games, and you'll have the skills needed to take on more complex games.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Development (Game Development Series)

Computers & Technology

Rhodes, Glen

Games & Strategy Guides

Charles River Media

Written by a professional game developer, this book details the actual science of game development, including design, story character development, the physics and motion of a game, and audio issues. In this new edition, all of the latest features of Flash Professional 8 are covered, including the new sound channels, bitmap caching, texture pages, and more. The book also focuses on the incredible power of the new BitmapData class, and how it can be used to take the performance of Flash games to a whole new level. Through the book a variety of games are created using the power of Flash and the most recent advancements in ActionScript. Beginning with the basics of design, the book progresses through the entire process to teach programmers and Web developers how to create professional quality games quickly. With a basic knowledge of Flash and the techniques provided here, developers will be able to enhance their productivity and produce high quality games that make a real impact.

Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development

The days of Flash as a creative luxury are long gone. After months of downsizing, Flash creativity has been on a huge rationalization program. It is no longer enough to present animation in millions of colors and a hundred transparencies. It is no longer sufficient to provide interactivity and dynamism for their own sake. The purpose of this collection is to show how designers have taken Flash and made it work for its supper. What we discover is a series of creations that place Flash at the hub of cutting edge web content. The end result is a snapshot of Flash as the ideal medium. In these amazing examples, we see the software pushed to its limits to create unbeatable applications―a collapsible family tree, an interactive video learning system, and a drawing tool, capable of running online! Beyond this, we dip into the back-end capabilities to look at how to improve Flash still further. Some staple XML and PHP routines are brought in to add a bit of spice, while Flash's mysterious sharedObject command is hunted down and tamed to create a hybrid Tamagotchi houseplant―perfectly suited to lure surfers back to your website!

Flash MX Application & Interface Design

McDonald, Jamie

Shepherd, Robbie

Prudence, Paul

Jokol, Ken

MacDonald, Jamie

Yard, Todd

Aylward, Peter

Web Development & Design

Apress

If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensable companions. This  package combines two vital elements: the most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript Rich, and practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in your Flash movie design. We've packed in 20 chapters of tutorials, hundreds of detailed reference entries, and hundreds of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the complete ActionScript dictionary, providing you with a comprehensive and portable reference tool. To gain an idea of the CD's content, view our online demonstration. You can view all the dictionary's entries, but only the first 30 or so are functional. Our aim has been to make this book the best Flash MX ActionScript resource, bar none―the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust.

Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference

Parker, Tim

Bhangal, Sham

Davey, John

Dehaan, Jen

Mebberson, Scott

Springer

These days people are looking to the Internet for its gaming possibilities. Whether it's real-time role-playing you're after with 30,000 of your closest friends, or just a solitary round of crazy golf, the most versatile piece of web animation software just made itself more approachable for designing games! This book takes us deep, deep down into the realms of game design, and hunts out the features that are really going to evolve your Flash skills into full-on game wizardry. We are going to discuss what makes a good game, and what makes a great game. We grapple with the concepts of 3D and how to get Flash to produce cutting-edge game environments, while keeping our sensible shoes on by reducing those file sizes and download times. We conduct a battle of wits with artificial intelligence, and have a good crash around with some collision detection in platform games. All in all, we are pushing Flash to its breaking point to see what lies beyond. The Studio series assumes you already know your way around Flash's basics, and it aims to boost your knowledge and help you master some advanced techniques. Flash 5 Games Studio draws its inspiration from the full spectrum of Flash's capabilities. Amongst other things, it explores: <ul>
<li>Refining methods of graphic creation to speed up game performance </li> <li>Using ActionScript techniques for player control and environmental reactions </li> <li>Mastering the sound capabilities with interactive soundtracks </li> <li>Using data packets and sockets to develop multiplayer games </li> </ul> What you’ll learnWho this book is forIf you want to turn your open-ended Flash animations into challenging, high-quality games, then this is the book for you. You will benefit from it if you are: <ul>
<li>A Flash user who wants to get comfortable with the most important and useful ActionScript commands</li> <li>A Flash user who wants to push the software to the edge of its capabilities, and stretch your knowledge base to its limit</li> <li>A Flash-savvy game designer who wants to venture into the realms of web-based gaming</li> </ul>

Flash Games Studio

Doull, David

Choromanski, Igor

Everett-Church, Justin

Poeser, Thomas

Sutherland, Kev

Sutherland, Kevin

friends of ED

Creating Music for Games and Film covers the technical and the artistic side of creating compelling, exciting, and realistic music for video games and film. Featuring orchestral music, the book is a genuine, hands-on look at the practical steps to turning your composing instinct into a finished, useable, and marketable product. The book includes a companion disc containing all example music in rendered MP3 format and source files. Today's virtual instruments sound so fantastic that it is finally possible for composers to fulfill their dreams of writing music and hearing it authentically rendered and realized. There are, however, many secrets behind using the software to maximize the quality and realism of the finished music. These tricks can be the difference between writing something that sounds 'kind of' real, and landing a big game or movie score deal. Features: <ul> <li>Practical chapters that cover the most popular game genres-and the techniques to create music in each genre</li> <li>Covers the technical and the artistic side of creating compelling, exciting, and realistic music for video games</li> <li>Includes disc with music examples rendered as easy-to-access MP3 files to go with each section of the book</li> <li>Overview and understanding of the main sounds of an orchestra, and how to write for each instrument</li> </ul>

Creating Music for Games and Films

Mercury Learning & Information

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