We've all sneaked the odd five minutes here or there playing the latest Flash game that someone sent round the office, but creating those games is trickier than it looks. The aim of Foundation Game Design with Flash is to take you, even if you've minimal multimedia or programming experience, through a series of step-by-step examples and detailed case studies to the point where you'll have the skills to independently design any conceivable 2D game using Flash and ActionScript. The book is a non-technical one-stop-shop for all the most important skills and techniques a beginner game designer needs to build games with Flash from scratch. Whether you're creating quick blasts of viral amusement, or more in-depth action or adventure titles, this book is for you.
* Focused and friendly introduction to designing games with Flash and ActionScript
* 5 detailed case studies of Flash games
* Essential techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters
What you'll learn
* Learn how to build interactive movies and objects with Flash
* Get a thorough grounding in ActionScript 3.0 and good programming practices, with minimal prior programming experience required
* Discover how to build Interactive Storybooks, Space-Shooter, Adventure and Drag and Drop games.
* Master collision detection, Enemy AI systems, player control, managing game data, basic physics and trigonometry.
* Make use of Design Patterns and Object Oriented Programming techniques to build robust games.
* Understand the strategies for making games fun to play and easy to build.
