Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies
Published on 20. November 2006
408 pages
978-0-471-78891-1 (ISBN)
Description
You can start game programming in a flash
Here's how to create five different cool games - no experiencenecessary!
Ever think you could come up with a better computer game? Then thisbook is for you! No boring programming theory here, just the stuffyou need to know to actually make something happen, and all inplain English. Build a brain-teasing math game, go classic withPong, create monsters and mayhem, and much more.
Discover how to
* Build and control basic movie clips
* Make text appear and change
* Generate random numbers
* Add sound effects
* Create cars and space vehicles that move realistically
* Blow up stuff onscreen
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Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies
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Person
Andy Harris earned a degree in Special Education fromIndiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). Hetaught young adults with severe disabilities for several years. Healso taught himself enough computer programming to support histeaching habit with freelance programming.
Those were the exciting days when computers started to have harddrives, and some computers connected to each other with arcaneprotocols. He taught programming in those days because it wasfun.
Eventually, Andy decided to teach computer science full time, andhe still teaches at IUPUI. He lectures in the applied computingprogram and runs the streaming media lab. He also teaches classesin whatever programming language is in demand at the time. He hasdeveloped a large number of online video-based courses andinternational distance education projects.
Andy has written several books on various computing topics andlanguages including Java, C#, mobile computing, JavaScript, andPHP/MySQL.
Andy welcomes comments and suggestions about his books. He can bereached at aharris@cs.iupui.edu.
Content
Introduction.
Part I: Basic Flash.
Chapter 1: Why You Want to Write Games in Flash.
Chapter 2: Cruising and Using the Flash Environment.
Part II: The Next Steps.
Chapter 3: Altered States.
Chapter 4: Getting with the Program.
Chapter 5: Making an Interactive Game.
Part III: Sprites, or Movie Clips.
Chapter 6: Introducing Sprites and Movie Clips.
Chapter 7: Won't Be Long 'Til You Write Pong.
Part IV: Getting Control of the Situation.
Chapter 8: Keyboard Input and Audio Output.
Chapter 9: It's Alive! Animating Your Sprites.
Chapter 10: Building the Monster Traffic Game.
Part V: Phun with Phuzzy Physics.
Chapter 11: Vectors and Gravity.
Chapter 12: Vehicle Motion.
Chapter 13: The Life and Death of Sprites.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 14: Ten Math Concepts for Game Programmers.
Chapter 15: Ten Game Starters.
Index.
