Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development, 2/e (Paperback)

Description

If you want to take your Flash Professional 8 skills to a new level while learning how to produce games that rival anything available on the web, this is the book for you. Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development is written by a professional game developer. Using the power of Flash and the most recent advancements in ActionScript, the book progresses through the entire development process to teach programmers and Web developers how to create professional quality games quickly.

It teaches techniques for producing fast 3D effects that can be used with "cheat" techniques to produce powerful, high-performance results. It details the actual science of game development, including design, character development, the physics and motion of a game, and audio issues. And in this new edition, all of the latest features of Flash Professional 8 are covered, including the new sound channels, bitmap caching, texture pages, and more.

The book covers many advanced topics in a simple, easy to understand way. It emphasizes the incredible power of the new BitmapData class and teaches how it can be used to take the performance of Flash games to a whole new level. It has never been easier to get right down to the pixel level and manipulate things at blazing speeds, making previously impossible games a breeze to make. So get to your computer, insert the CD-ROM, and prepare to begin your journey into the world of Flash Professional 8 game development.

 

Features

• Provides methods for creating games for the web, standalone devices, and PCs
• Details how to create sounds for games
• Explains how to save data to the disk with the built in SharedObject
• Covers physics for games, including bounce, gravity, and circular motion
• Details the powerful new bitmap-based classes available in Flash Professional 8

描述

如果您想要將您的Flash Professional 8技能提升到新的水平，同時學習如何製作與網上可用的任何遊戲相媲美的遊戲，這本書就是為您而寫的。Macromedia Flash Professional 8遊戲開發是由一位專業的遊戲開發者撰寫的。利用Flash的強大功能和ActionScript的最新進展，本書通過整個開發過程，教授程序員和網絡開發人員如何快速創建專業質量的遊戲。

它教授了製作快速3D效果的技巧，可以與“作弊”技巧一起使用，以產生強大的高性能結果。它詳細介紹了遊戲開發的實際科學，包括設計、角色開發、遊戲的物理和運動，以及音頻問題。在這個新版本中，涵蓋了Flash Professional 8的所有最新功能，包括新的聲音通道、位圖緩存、紋理頁面等。

本書以簡單易懂的方式涵蓋了許多高級主題。它強調了新的BitmapData類的強大功能，並教授如何使用它將Flash遊戲的性能提升到一個全新的水平。現在，更容易直接到像素級別並以驚人的速度操作事物，使以前不可能的遊戲變得輕而易舉。所以，趕快到您的電腦上，插入CD-ROM，準備開始您的Flash Professional 8遊戲開發之旅。

 

特點

• 提供了為網絡、獨立設備和個人電腦創建遊戲的方法
  


• 詳細介紹了如何為遊戲創建聲音
  


• 解釋了如何使用內置的SharedObject將數據保存到磁盤上
  


• 涵蓋了遊戲的物理學，包括彈跳、重力和圓周運動
  


• 詳細介紹了Flash Professional 8中可用的強大的基於位圖的類