Building Great Flash MX Games

by Matthew David

* Designed for both professionals and hobbyists, this is the most complete book on creating sophisticated games with Macromedia Flash MX * Shows readers how to harness the full potential of Flash MX and Flash ActionScript * Provides hands-on advice for creating commercial games, as well as games to boost a Web site's "stickiness," perk up presentations, or enhance educational materials * Explains the tools, scripts, and other building blocks of Flash...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764519859
• ISBN13: 9780764519857
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Wiley Pub.
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great introduction to game design in Flash MX

The code covers the basics of games and is great for the money. It does include some software introduction that doesn't come with Flash (Soundforge, Macromedia's communication Server and mentions 3D software like Swift 3D, etc). All of these seem like great packages to own if you are serious about making games.I was having an issue getting the code from the site and the author replied with a valid explanation and information on major plans in supporting the book beyond pages themselves. The book has a number of completed games to use as examples to learn from, as well as additional code on his site. If the reader has a basic programming knowledge of JavaScript or any C based language (Java, C++, C#, etc), the reader could learn and understand all the concepts within this book. It's definitely a good starting place.

Building Great Flash MX Games

This Book is GREAT!!! I come from an Art BackGround and Action-Scriping is my first attempt at Programming, this is the first book I have read, and used, that helped me to grasp the syntax and building blocks of Action Scripting. The Author Matthew David, lays out some step by step projects, and does well at explaining the process along the way, I had success early in the book and that kept me motivated. WELL DONE!! I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn action scripting to make games, with flash.

Very Helpful

I agree to an extent, with there being some mistakes, but none so big that I couldn't figure it out, and I am new to the action script world. The thing that was so great about this book, why I give it 4 stars is that it was very well explained, it made it easy to follow and know what I needed to do. I am working on becoming a web developer, and have mastered several languages, as well I have worked with flash a lot before jumping into scripting. I did have an advantage of knowing the basics of flash, but I still believe that the book is very well written, compared to other computer books that I have studied. I don't think anyone who would want to learn game development could not understand.I think that there could be a second edition with corrected material and that would be the perfect flash book, especially for beginners. Matthew, in my opinion has a way with making harder things simplified.