Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted de Sham Bhangal

Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted

Autor Sham Bhangal, Fay Rhodes, Keith Peters, Steve Young, Brian Monnone, Brad Ferguson, Kristian Besley, Anthony Eden

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 dec 2003

Suntem de părere că volumul Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted reprezintă o resursă tehnică esențială pentru dezvoltatorii care doresc să stăpânească ecosistemul Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Cartea explorează în profunzime integrarea elementelor de ActionScript pentru crearea unor experiențe interactive complexe, punând la dispoziție instrumentele necesare pentru a transforma animația statică în sisteme de joc dinamice. Notăm cu interes structura modulară a lucrării, care ghidează cititorul prin progresia logică a dezvoltării unui proiect. Capitolele sunt dedicate unor piloni fundamentali precum logica de programare, animația personajelor, detectarea coliziunilor și simularea legilor fizicii (gravitație și fricțiune). Această abordare permite o înțelegere granulară a modului în care sunetul și controlul utilizatorului sunt integrate pentru a produce jocuri de curse sau titluri retro funcționale. Ca și Oliver Shaw în New Masters of Flash, autorii distilează experiența reală în principii acționabile, oferind soluții concrete pentru provocările tehnice întâlnite în producția de jocuri online. Putem afirma că acest titlu completează armonios opera lui Sham Bhangal, autor care a pus bazele învățării acestui mediu prin lucrări precum Foundation Flash 8 sau Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8. Dacă lucrările sale anterioare se concentrau pe fundamentele limbajului, Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted ridică miza spre aplicabilitatea practică în industria de gaming, oferind un eșantion reprezentativ al celor mai solicitate tehnici de design multimedia de la acea vreme.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781590592366
ISBN-10: 1590592360
Pagini: 266
Ilustrații: VI, 266 p.
Dimensiuni: 193 x 230 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1st ed.
Editura: Apress
Locul publicării:Berkeley, CA, United States

Public țintă

Professional/practitioner

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor care doresc să înțeleagă arhitectura din spatele jocurilor Flash de succes. Veți câștiga o perspectivă tehnică riguroasă asupra fizicii jocurilor și a logicii de programare în ActionScript, primind acces la metodologiile utilizate de unii dintre cei mai importanți dezvoltatori din domeniu pentru a crea interactivitate fluidă și performantă.

Despre autor

Sham Bhangal este un autor de prestigiu în domeniul noilor medii digitale, cu o experiență de peste cinci ani în documentarea tehnologiilor Macromedia și Adobe. Recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a explica concepte complexe, el a semnat sau co-semnat numeroase titluri de referință precum Foundation Flash și New Masters of Flash. Expertiza sa vastă acoperă nu doar ActionScript, ci și tehnologii web fundamentale precum HTML, CSS și JavaScript. Prezența sa constantă la evenimente majore din industrie, precum FlashForward, îi confirmă statutul de autoritate în designul și dezvoltarea interactivă.

Descriere scurtă

Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted presents a definitive selection of game design techniques using this version of Macromedia Flash—now the industry standard for creating multimedia applications, used by over one million professionals.
Each chapter covers a distinct area of online gaming, describing the design and development of a finished Flash game. The book delivers as many complete example games as possible and is packed full of the most wanted tips, tricks, and techniques to demonstrate exactly how to produce exciting and interactive games. This is an inspiring sample of all the very best techniques that professional Flash game designers are using today.

Cuprins

Logic.- Character Animation & Personality.- Collisions and Friction.- Gravity and Physics.- Control.- Sound.- Retro Games.- Racing.- Online Gaming.

Recenzii

From the reviews:
"A cracking read. ... All the chapters are informative and there is no throwaway filler." - flashmagazine.com
"Put together by Flash gaming’s equivalent of the Wu-Tan Clan, this awesome full-colour guide draws upon the knowledge of some of the world’s greatest games developers … You won’t find a better guidebook if you want to have fun with Flash games." - Practical Web Projects
"If you want to get started on creating games but you don’t know where to begin ... this is the book for you!" - Flash Developer dot nl
"The perfect starting point for someone who wants to enter the world of online games with a good, thorough grounding. … Well done, friends of ED!!!" gotoAndPlay()
"Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted is a book especially written for people who want to develop games in Macromedia Flash … . This is one of those books I really like full colour, easy-to-read and it has a nice page design. … This book covers all the aspects of game development within Macromedia Flash … . a good choice for the starting game developer." (Weyert de Boer, Flash Week, July, 2004)
"This awesome full-colour guide draws upon the knowledge of some of the world’s greatest games developers, including two of this issue’s contributors. The book is aimed at both professional or aspiring games designers, and provides a great mix of the theory of games development and practical steps … . The guides are written in a non-patronising manner, which makes them a pleasure to follow … . You won’t find a better guidebook if you want to have fun with Flash games." (Practical Web Projects, May, 2004)
"You never heard of Flash as an environment for game development, or you don’t know where to begin from? Then ‘FLASH MX 2004 GAMES MOST WANTED’ is probably the best book on this matter you could stumble upon. … this a very complete book, the perfectstarting point for someone who wants to enter the world of online games with a good, thorough grounding. … ‘FALSH MX 2004 GAMES MOST WANTED’ is highly recommended! Well done, friends of ED!!!" (Bax, gotoAndPlay, June, 2004)
"If you want to get started on creating games but you don’t know where to begin .. this is the book for you! … Every single step is shown and explained very well … . this book is also very useful if you want to make non-Flash games. Every portion of code is explained and written in a way you really understand the concept … . It’s a very complete book covering every aspect." (Flash Developer dot nl, June, 2004)
"This is a book for Flash developers who want to write games … . It’s a solid primer in all the skills required to design and build your own games in Flash MX2004. ... You get a broad range of artistic and technical material … . All the chapters are informative and there is no throwaway filler. … You’ll discover ways of turning your limitations into design features." (John Daiziel, www.falshmagazine.com, March, 2004)

Notă biografică

Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for five years, during which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.

Caracteristici

Competitively priced, comprehensively illustrated in full color, with in-depth content featuring the very best techniques for online game design Includes plenty of "finished products" that the reader can customize or incorporate within their own games First Flash MX 2004 title to focus on Flash game design; and, as Flash is relatively simple to learn, this book provides an ideal entry point for aspiring online games developers All authors are active web community members and renowned web designers / games developers. They will provide personal technical support for the book direct to the reader via the friends of ED support forums (http://friendsofed.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=cfrm&s=989094322) Covers both Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004