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Foundation Game Design with Flash

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Rex Spuy
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  • Teaches Flash game design from scratch
  • Covers many different game formats
  • Will be followed by an advanced game design title

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Programming Foundations: How to Make a Video Game

    Pages 3-29

  3. Making Objects

    Pages 31-77

  4. Programming Objects

    Pages 79-112

  5. Controlling Movie Clip Objects

    Pages 115-163

  6. Decision Making

    Pages 165-219

  7. Controlling a Player Character

    Pages 221-263

  8. Bumping into Things

    Pages 265-321

  9. Object-Oriented Game Design

    Pages 323-395

  10. Platform Game: Physics and Data Management

    Pages 397-482

  11. Advanced Object and Character Control

    Pages 485-571

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 573-586
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About this book

We've all sneaked the odd five minutes here or there playing the latest Flash game that someone sent round the office, but creating those games is trickier than it looks. The aim of Foundation Game Design with Flash is to take you, even if you've minimal multimedia or programming experience, through a series of step-by-step examples and detailed case studies to the point where you'll have the skills to independently design any conceivable 2D game using Flash and ActionScript. The book is a non-technical one-stop-shop for all the most important skills and techniques a beginner game designer needs to build games with Flash from scratch. Whether you're creating quick blasts of viral amusement, or more in-depth action or adventure titles, this book is for you.

  • Focused and friendly introduction to designing games with Flash and ActionScript
  • Five detailed case studies of Flash games
  • Essential techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters

About the author

Rex van der Spuy is a video game designer and writer. He s written Foundation Game Design with Flash, Advanced Game Design with Flash and Foundation Game Design with AS3.0. Rex has designed games and done interactive interface programming Agency Interactive (Dallas), Scottish Power (Edinburgh), DC Interact (London), Draught Associates (London), and the Bank of Montreal (Canada). He also builds game engines and interactive interfaces for museum installations for PixelProject (Cape Town). In addition, he created and taught advanced courses in game design for the Canadian School of India (Bangalore, India). When not writing about games, making them, or playing them, he amuses himself by building experimental, autonomous, self-aware, multi-cellular parallel universes out of shoe boxes, scotch tape, spare milk bottle caps and bits of string . He claims, that this is a lot more entertaining than you might think, but we re skeptical.

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