Christopher Griffith

Real-World Flash Game Development

How to Follow Best Practices and Keep Your Sanity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Your deadline just got moved up. Your artist has never worked with Flash before. Any Flash developer can share similar tales of woe. This book breaks down the process of Flash game development into approachable steps. It teaches Flash users the ways to leverage Flash as a game development tool.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9781138427495
• ISBN-10: 1138427497
• Artikelnr.: 49209007

Autorenporträt

Christopher Griffith

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Computer Science Isn't For Everyone Chapter 2: The Best Tool for
the Job Chapter 3: A Plan is Worth a Thousand Aspirin Chapter 4: //Comments
FTW! Chapter 5: The Least You Can Do vs An Architect's Approach Chapter 6:
Managing Your Assets/Working With Graphics Chapter 7: Make it Move -
ActionScript Animation Chapter 8: Turn it Up to 11: Working with Audio
Chapter 9: Put the Video Back in Video Game Chapter 10: XML and Dynamic
Content Chapter 11: Four Letter Words: M-A-T-H Chapter 12: Don't Hit Me:
Collision Detection Techniques Chapter 13: Mix Up - A Simple Engine Chapter
14: Bringing It All Together: A Platformer Chapter 15: Marble Runner : Our
First Mobile Game Chapter 16: Air Hockey: A Multi-Touch, Multiplayer Tablet
Game Afterword Online Content: Bonus Chapter: Squash 'Em If You've Got 'Em:
The Bug Hunt Bonus Chapter: On Your Guard Bonus Chapter: Introduction to
Mobile Development Appendix A: Webcams and Microphones Appendix B:
Localization Appendix C: JSFL is JavaScript For Lovers Appendix D: Using
AMFPHP with Games

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Chapter 1: Computer Science Isn't For Everyone

Chapter 2: The Best Tool for the Job

Chapter 3: A Plan is Worth a Thousand Aspirin

Chapter 4: //Comments FTW!

Chapter 5: The Least You Can Do vs An Architect's Approach

Chapter 6: Managing Your Assets/Working With Graphics

Chapter 7: Make it Move - ActionScript Animation

Chapter 8: Turn it Up to 11: Working with Audio

Chapter 9: Put the Video Back in "Video Game"

Chapter 10: XML and Dynamic Content

Chapter 11: Four Letter Words: M-A-T-H

Chapter 12: Don't Hit Me: Collision Detection Techniques

Chapter 13: Mix Up - A Simple Engine

Chapter 14: Bringing It All Together: A Platformer

Chapter 15: Marble Runner : Our First Mobile Game

Chapter 16: Air Hockey: A Multi-Touch, Multiplayer Tablet Game

Afterword

Online Content:

Bonus Chapter: Squash 'Em If You've Got 'Em: The Bug Hunt

Bonus Chapter: On Your Guard

Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Mobile Development

Appendix A: Webcams and Microphones

Appendix B: Localization

Appendix C: JSFL is JavaScript For Lovers

Appendix D: Using AMFPHP with Games

Rezensionen

"The volume's 16 chapters (and 3 online bonus chapters) in this new edition (1st ed., 2010) provide a series of discrete challenges: animation, audio and video management, implementing mathematical functions, collision detection, game physics, and creating platformers and iOS games, which gradually build user competence and confidence. Although the examples increase in complexity as the book progresses, it is not necessary to do them in order. The book could be used as a course resource for advanced undergraduates or as a reference for experienced programmers who want t o use Flash. The excellent companion website supplies all the code needed to build the examples, as well as a forum where questions can be posted and answered. The author frequently inserts commentary about best programming practices (what to do and what to avoid), which differentiates this book from many similar titles."

--E. Bertozzi, Long Island University