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Covers of all aspects of multiplayer game development
and virtual world development
° The demand for multiplayer game developments has exploded in the past year to
become a billion dollar industry
° Author is a top virtual world developer using Flash ActionScript
° A rare look at development in this highly lucrative market
Summary
This book starts off with the basics of who wants these applications and why
and quickly moves into virtual world game development. The main focus is on
deconstruction of all aspects of multiplayer game development and virtual
world development. The book covers chatting, avatar creation, mini-game
integration, pathfinding, and more.
About the Author
Jobe Makar (Elm City, NC) specializes in advanced ActionScript programming
in all versions of Macromedia Flash and has authored several Flash
programming books. He has over eight years experience building advanced
applications, websites, and games using Flash, XML, HTML, JavaScript, and
interacting with middleware. Jobe holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics with 3
years of graduate study toward a PhD in physics. He has received several
awards and acknowledgements for Flash programming and regularly speaks at
industry conferences such as Flashforward, Flash in the Can, and Flash on the
Beach. Jobe is a certified Flash trainer and developer.
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There aren't a lot of books about multiplayer and virtual worlds , especially targeting at ActionScript 3 and Flash.
This book explains lots of important concepts in developing multiplayer games in using ElectroServer, including latency and security
Covering the theories and explaining lots of code examples from chat messaging, realtime games, and even a virtual world, plus more!
This book is not for flash beginners, you'll need to know OOP and/or Actionscript 3 to enjoy this book. You'll learn to love it though if you're willing to work hard :)
You'll love this book even more if you know Java as well!
Highly recommend this excellent book to anyone with Intermediate to Advanced programming skills in ActionScript 3
What Jobe Makar does cover better than some books I have read is the whole security side of these sorts of systems and how you can greatly reduce potential threats from hackers and stem cheating within your games. Coding defensively and handling important calculations on the server are two such approaches that he covers and they are explored and explained well. While there is not much code in the actual book, it is all freely downloadable from their website so you can try out their examples and learn as you go along. Examples include: Chat Rooms, tile-based games, a tank game and quite a few chapters on a 'social' style game with avatars.
If you wish to get an understanding of multi-player development in Flash then this is the book for you. If however you would like to build everything yourself (from server to client), then still pick this book up for the client side of things and invest in a decent Java book so that you can start learning to program your very own server to run your games off, and start getting into the real gritty stuff of building your own multi-player Flash games!
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