Game Development with ActionScript
Game Development with ActionScript
ISBN: 1592001106
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 162
Pages: 162
Authors: Lewis Moronta
- 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
Game Development with ActionScript
ISBN: 1592001106
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 162
Pages: 162
Authors: Lewis Moronta