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by Gary Rosenzweig (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: QUE (30 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 078972524X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789725240
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Macromedia Flash 5 Actionscript for Fun & Games. The title says it all really. Gary Rosenzweig's book is entirely devoted to showing you how to program games in ActionScript.

It kicks off with a few chapters devoted to Actionscript features that are of general interest to games programmers. For those with limited ActionScript experience, this is a good place to start, although some prior experience of Flash is recommended as Rosenzweig sets a hot pace and by page 37 you're writing your first ActionScript program.

Having dealt with the tools required for interactive games programming, the rest of the book is almost entirely given over to hands-on example-based lessons. Starting with toys and gadgets like a music jukebox and analogue clock, Rosenzweig shows you how to program virtually every kind of game conceivable. Chapters are devoted to construction toys, hunt and click games, catch and avoid games, aim and shoot games, ball and paddle games, quizzes and word puzzles, picture puzzles, brain puzzles, casino and card games and arcade games.

All of the program examples are available online, so you can not only use the techniques in the book to write new code, but are actively encouraged to adapt the examples to your own needs.

Even if games are not your ultimate goal, you'll learn a lot about interactive ActionScript from these pages. Gary Rosenzweig wrote five books on Macromedia Director, runs four games Web sites and knows his stuff when it comes to Actionscript. You can see examples of his games at www.clevermedia.com --Ken McMahon

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This book will be the only game-specific book for Macromedia Flash and ActionScript. Each chapter will study and deconstruct a new type of game or gadget, such as hunt and click games, catch and avoid games, or action and adventure games.

The book will waste no time on illustration or animation directions but will focus solely on building games in Flash, including coding, the primary skill that most aspiring Flash game designers lack.



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5.0 out of 5 stars the resource for creating cool games and more with flash 5 !, 3 Jun 2001
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Internet software technology is moving FAST and Macromedia Flash has become the industry standard for producing compelling web content.

With the release of flash 5 ,dynamic,exciting,and 'sticky' web sites are now easy to create, with little experience from the designer/programmer.

"ActionScript For Fun And Games" provides an excellent source of inspiration to create interesting features for your site, and the techniques that you will learn will not only be usefull for creating games, but also for intigrating into your core website design!

the book is probably best suited to users familier with at least a basic knowlege of flash, although the first chapter brings the reader upto speed with all the basic requirements needed before plunging the reader into cool actionscrit routine's. The book provides helpfull tips throughout and all of the examples are available to download from the authors site, full permission is given to use any of the code as it stands in your own projects, although you are encouraged to expand your creativity and add your own idea's.

In essence the book provdes a usefull reference tool for the challenging world of flash actionscript programming, while remembering why we all like to do this stuff in the first place..FUN!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Started me off with action script!, 25 Jun 2002
This book is the reason why I today do action scripts, and give Flash classes!
I think you're better off with some experience in programming f. i. java script, or at least some programming experience, before you use this book. I would not recommend it to complete beginners. That said: this book is created by a programmer, as one might see. The way of coding is intelligent, and I think it's a must-have for those who want to get good habits when programming action script.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hoorah - an interesting text book!, 29 May 2002
This is the first actionscript book I've bought after getting to grips with the basics of Flash and I'm really impressed. Gary's explanation of Actionscript is clear and easy to understand and with all of the games it's actually fun to learn - you're straight in there which is brilliant if you're at all impatient like me. Of course it isn't a complete Actionscript guide but it's a good way to get your feet wet and you'll definitely want to keep it for referal because the games in here can be used again and again as bases to build from.
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I found this book excellent - clearly worked examples accompanied by quality explanation that easily allows you to develop your own games. Highly recommended.
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