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Game Development with ActionScript

ISBN: 1592001106
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 162

Authors: Lewis Moronta

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• Main page
• Table of contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Letter from the Series Editor
• Introduction
• Section Part One:. What s in This Book?
• What s on the CD?
• Part ONE: The Essentials
• Chapter 1. The Flash Interface: Getting Acquainted
• Flash History
• Flash Today
• The Flash Tour
• Symbols
• Publishing
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Chapter 2. Programming and Design: Concept to Production
• What Is Programming?
• What Is ActionScript?
• Production Pipeline
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Chapter 3. The Fundamentals: Variables, Conditionals, and Loops
• Where Do Scripts Go?
• The trace Command and Syntax
• Your First Program
• Commenting Your Code
• Introducing Variables
• The Operators
• Conditional Statements
• Loops and Iteration
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Chapter 4. Movie Clips and Buttons: Methods and Properties
• Programmable Buttons
• All About MCs
• Custom Functions
• Movie Clip Navigation
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Exercise
• Chapter 5. Arrays and Objects
• What Are Arrays?
• Referencing Arrays
• Creating and Initializing Arrays
• Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• Using Arrays
• What Are ActionScript Objects?
• Creating and Initializing Objects
• Using Objects
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Part TWO: The Intermediate Info
• Chapter 6. Dynamic Movie Clips
• Generating Random Numbers
• Duplicating a Movie Clip
• Duplicating Clips from the Library
• The attachMovie Demo
• Improving the Particle System
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercise
• Chapter 7. Drawing with a Script
• How to Draw a Line
• How to Draw Shapes
• How to Automate Patterns
• Drawing Shapes with Fills
• Drawing Curves
• Drawing Shapes in Movie Clips
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercises
• Part THREE: Interactivity and Sound
• Chapter 8. User Interactivity: the Keyboard
• The Hidden Keypress
• Using the Key Object
• Installing Key Listeners
• A Key Object Demo
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 9. More Interaction: The Mouse
• Detecting the Mouse Cursor Position
• Replacing the Mouse Cursor
• Drawing Lines to the Cursor
• Allowing the User to Draw
• Dragging and Dropping
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercise
• Chapter 10. Sound Effects and Music
• Using Library Sounds
• Setting Up a Sound Movie Clip
• Attaching Sounds Dynamically
• Creating a Volume Slider
• Panning Sounds
• Transforming Sounds
• Sound Monitoring
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercises
• Part FOUR: The Math
• Chapter 11. Trigonometry Made Easy
• The Unit Circle
• What Are Radians?
• Periods, Domains, and Ranges
• Trigonometric Functions
• The Tank Demo
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercise
• Chapter 12. The Physics: Making It Feel Real
• Vector and Scalar Values
• Working with Gravity
• Working with Wind
• Working with Friction
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Exercise
• Part FIVE: Advanced Topics
• Chapter 13. Server and CGI Communications
• Exporting HTML
• Browser Communication
• CGI Scripts
• How Info Is Stored
• The LoadVars Object
• Sending Info to the Server
• Saving Game States
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Chapter 14. Memory and Web Management
• Designing a Loader Screen
• Using the Bandwidth Profiler
• Issues with Linked Objects
• Summary
• Question Answer
• Exercise
• Chapter 15. Advanced Interaction with Components
• Meet the Components
• The PushButton
• Designing an Options Screen
• Summary
• Questions Answer
• Exercise
• Chapter 16. Debugging and Avoiding Common Programming Pitfalls
• Common Pitfalls
• Using the Debugger
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Chapter 17. Matridia II: The Project
• The Idea
• The Approach
• The Setup
• The Code
• The Future
• Summary
• Questions Answers
• Exercises
• Appendix A. Keyboard Keys and Key Code Values