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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted
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by Sham Bhangal, Glen Rhodes, Kristian Besley, and Brian Monnone
Sales Rank: 420415
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List Price: $39.99
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: friends of ED; 1 edition November 10, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590592360
ISBN-13: 978-1590592366
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted presents a definitive selection of game design techniques using the latest version of Macromedia Flash &emdash; now the industry standard for creating multimedia applications, used by over one million professionals. Each chapter covers a distinct area of online gaming, describing the design and development of a finished Flash game. The book delivers as many complete example games as possible and is packed full of the most wanted tips, tricks, and techniques to demonstrate exactly how to produce exciting and interactive games. This is an inspiring sample of all the very best techniques that professional Flash game designers are using today. Summary of Contents: - Chapter 1 Logic
- Chapter 2 Character Animation & Personality
- Chapter 3 Collisions and Friction
- Chapter 4 Gravity and Physics
- Chapter 5 Control
- Chapter 6 Sound
- Chapter 7 Retro Games
- Chapter 8 Racing
- Chapter 9 Online Gaming. This chapter is provided as a bonus chapter here.
About The Author
Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for 3 years, in which time he has authored and coauthored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles such as Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference,
Bhangal has considerable experience working with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward (the largest Macromedia Flash developer conference), Bhangal has long been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products.
I started my mind going early in life when I was about 4 years old. At that age, I began playing the piano, which was sitting unused in our house. I've been playing ever since then. Later, in 1997, I co-wrote a full-length musical called Chrystanthia. Somewhere along the way, I picked up game programming as a hobby, and eventually ended up making games professionally for home console systems. Then, in 1998, I discovered how I could take all my experiences and combine them when I discovered Flash. The rest is history. I share my ideas on my website, www.glenrhodes.com.
Kristian Besley currently works as a freelance author and Flash/web developer, specializing in interactivity and dynamic-driven content. He has written a number of books on Flash, including Foundation Flash MX, Flash MX Video, and Learn Design with Flash MX. He is also a contributor to Computer Arts magazine. In 2002, his website, www.graphci.com, hosted the first ever worldwide competition on HTML-based TableArt, which Kristian himself describes as "pictures, designs, or creations made with the fantasmagorical technology of tables in HTML." The entries of last year's competition are viewable at www.graphci.com/tableart. Kristian can be reached at besley@ntlworld.com.
Brian is more than simply a Flash artist. He is a technologist with a love for great design, motion graphics, and music. Currently, he is a Senior Interactive Designer at nFusion Group in Austin, Texas. His role with nFusion includes creating dynamic Flash demos, videos, and sound design.
His future plans include filmmaking. Becoming a filmmaker has been a lifelong passion for Brian, and until that day comes he'll continue to create unique multimedia. Visit his website: www.monnone.com.
‘Who is this guy?' I hear you ask. Well, allow me to introduce myself. I'm a 28 year old designer and Flash developer living in the sunny town of Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland. I originally started out as a Product Designer, having studied at Glasgow School of Art, but somehow found myself in the New Media industry, like most of my peers I just seem to have ‘fallen into' New Media. Up until recently I've spent the last 2 years of my life working (if you can call it that) at Flammable Jam with Hoss Gifford and some of the other top designer/developers in Scotland. Check out my site at www.gimpster.net.
Keith lives in the vicinity of Boston, MA, in the USA with his wife Kazumi and their new daughter Kristine. He has been working with Flash since 1999, and has co-authored many books for friends of ED, including Flash MX Studio, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the ground-breaking Flash Math Creativity.
In 2001 he started the experimental Flash site, BIT-101 (www.bit-101.com), which strives for a new, cutting edge, open source experiment each day. The site recently won an award at the Flashforward 2003 Flash Film Festival in the Experimental category. In addition to the experiments on the site, there are several highly regarded Flash tutorials which have been translated into many languages and are now posted on web sites throughout the world. Keith is currently working full time doing freelance and contract Flash development and various writing projects.
From an early age, Anthony developed a love for interacting with mathematics and computational languages. Along the way, he gained an appreciation for any given natural environment and developed the ability to transform his environment into a digital construct. Inspiration for his latest project, www.arseiam.com (essentially an ActionScript anthology of his Flash work), is a testament to this philosophy. For Anthony, the last decade has included commercial roles with Microsoft, Disney, Toyota, and Adobe, opportunities that have provided him with a sound framework in which to explore and diversify his technical skills and style. Spare time? If he's not thinking about it, he's doing it!
After wanting to be an actor for many years I decided to take a more "realistic" career route when I was choosing which college to go to. I had always loved to draw so I decided to give animation a try. Since animating is acting with a pencil, I knew that I'd be happy - the best of both worlds. I am a graduate of Sheridan College's 3-year Classical Animation Program in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and right now I'm involved with freelance game development and Flash animation work. My website is www.canvasobrad.com/.
Customer Reviews & Comments
As a physicist, I immediately turned to the parts that incorporate physics. Like the friction of a billiard ball on a pool table. I grew up on Pong, and the rich texturing here is so amazingly removed from that! The discussions on how to collide two balls may not be fully correct to someone who had to deal with impact parameters in classical and quantum mechanics. But it suffices well in the book's simulations. Another chapter deals with using gravity, and will be useful to some of you. Takes the mystery out of incorporating at least a simple gravity in your games. Maybe it is nothing profound, but the results are very slick. And achieved with relatively little source code, which is thoroughly explained in the narrative. The level of detail of the physical simulations here does not approach that of some games by Activision and Electronic Arts, of course. But those are games developed with multimillion dollar budgets and teams of programmers. This book is suitable for you to develop a game by yourself.
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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted
List Price: $39.99
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