Game Development with ActionScript

By Lewis Moronta

Are you ready to jump into the world of game development? Game Development with ActionScript is the guide that can show you the way You'll cover the basics of programming with ActionScript and will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592001106
• ISBN13: 9781592001101
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Great way to start

I had used Flash 4 for some time. In Flash 4, if you wanted to do a certain command, like go to a different scene you went to the point and click menu and selected that.But I felt that was rather lacking in what you could do, so I wanted to get the latest and greatest version of Flash. I went out and bought it, (MX 2004) and I soon found out, that there really wasn't a point and click menu, and you needed at least some knowledge in ActionScript. I looked around, and found this book. And I am glad I did. The book is exellent. It's really easy to follow, between the detailed explantions and the demo's on the cd. I found it really easy to understand everything, and it gives you a great way to start programming.It comes with a demo of Flash MX 2004, but I highly recommend buying it (I got it at an educational discount). Both MX and this book were well worth the money.

Enthusiastic, Excellence, Easy to follow

This is an enthusiastic book to read because once you open it and see how easy it is to follow you'll be excited to continue to read, and learn how to use flash mx. The author shows excellence in communicating the information to his readers. I am not fimilar with programming, but interested in programming and i was able to gain a lot of information that I was able to apply(which is the most important concept of the book). I definitely recommend this book to those who may want to enhance their knowledge or one who is just curious of the field.

great flow

I'm more like a game freak. I wanted to learn more about games and development, with this book I have learned and enjoy reading it. It has a great flow to it. I highly recommend the book and to purchase this book.

Excellence

There are few author's that take the beginner's (dummy) route to teaching programming to the masses and this book shines brightly in that department. From start to finish, it seems that the author knows what I want to do and shows me thoroughly how to do it properly with different ways to tackle it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to take FLASH MX to sky high heights and not just leave this wonderful program to websites.

Great Introduction to ActionScript!

I was wondering when the Game Dev Series was going to publish a book on Flash ActionScript and before I could think twice, I found this book in my search. The price was decent so I decided to try it out...The author really knows how to break something down and make it easy to comprehend. I've never taken a programming class and after reading the book, I now feel very comfortable with Flash--and since it is a game programming book, he pretty much covered everything. His thorough explanations of functions and methods and other parts of the language were thorough enough to understand them completely yet without a redundant amount of info.The author is also very responsive to questions. That is a first! So I recommend this book for anyone trying to break into the game dev side of Flash... Even if you are just curious, check the book out.