Who This Book Is For

I have taken great care to ensure that this book is useful for a variety of people. With a bit of reader customization, this book is useful to everyone from the complete Flash newbie who has no programming experience to the salty code veteran who has been programming games for years . If you have no programming experience but have a healthy degree of motivation and enthusiasm , this book can take you from there to a point where your Web site is packed with video games of all shapes , sizes, and styles. If you're already programming games in another language, this book can not only teach you how to use Flash for your games, but also expand your knowledge of game development into the areas of physics and artificial intelligence. Finally, if you have worked in Flash before but would like to try your hand at video games , you can probably skim the first section and dig right into the game programming. Regardless of your level of experience and knowledge, this book can take you further.