Flash MX Games
ActionScript for artists
Nik Lever
ISBN 0 240 519 035 Focal Press 2002
- Benefit from the experience of a successful games designer whose Flash sites regularly get 10,000+ hits per day.
- Explained by an artist for artists so you can easily see how Flash ActionScript can work for your own games development.
- Includes lots of sample games you can adapt for your own use with the files on the free CD-Rom.
Learn the professional skills you need to make the best use of Flash for creating interactive animation and producing exciting, dynamic Internet content. Learn the entire process from creating the art and animation for games in Flash, to adding the interactivity using Flash's ActionScripting language. There is also extra valuable coverage of how Flash integrates with Director 8.5 and C++.
As a designer using Flash you will see how you can apply your creative skills to the many stages of game production and produce your own interactive games with this versatile package. As an animator you will be able to add interactive functionality to your own animation and produce a game. As a web developer you will see how to make the best use of the sophisticated development environment Flash offers for the production of both artwork and code to create low bandwidth, animated web content that sells.
The free CD-Rom includes all the code and files you need to try out the tutorials and see exactly how each game was created. Learn from the many different types of example games provided, from simple quizzes to platform-based games. High score tables and multi-player games using sockets, vital to higher level online games, are also covered in detail to ensure you have the complete skill set needed to succeed in this competitive arena.
The Author: Nik Lever is the Managing Director of Catalyst Pictures Ltd and produces games for Kelloggs, Coca-Cola and other blue chips. He is also the author of Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++, Flash MX 2004 Games and Director MX 2004 Games also available from Focal Press .