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The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript
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The Essential Guide
to Flash Games
Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript 3.0
Jeff Fulton
Steve Fulton
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Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript
Copyright © 2010 by Jeff Fulton and Steve Fulton
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Credits
President and Publisher :
Paul Manning
Lead Editor :
Ben Renow-Clarke
Technical Reviewer:
Iain Lobb
Editorial Board:
Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner,
Ewan Buckingham, Tony Campbell, Gary Cornell, Jonathan
Gennick, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Jeffrey Pepper,
Frank Pohlmann, Ben Renow-Clarke,
Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh
Coordinating Editor :
Kelly Moritz
Copy Editor :
Heather Lang
Compositor:
Mary Sudul
Indexer :
BIM Indexing & Proofreading Services
Artist :
April Milne
Cover Designer :
Kurt Krames
The Essential Guide to Flash Games
For Jeanne, Jacob, Ryan, and Justin
–Jeff Fulton
For Dawn, Rachel, Daphnie, and Kaitlyn
–Steve Fulton
Contents at a Glance
About the Authors ....................................................................................................xxv
About the Technical Reviewer...............................................................................xxvii
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................xxviii
Preface.......................................................................................................................xxx
Layout Conventions ..............................................................................................xxxiii
Part 1: The Basic Game Framework ...........................................................................1
Chapter 1: The Second Game Theory.........................................................................3
Chapter 2: Creating an AS3 Game Framework ........................................................45
Chapter 3: Creating Super Click................................................................................99
Part 2: Building Games ............................................................................................135
Chapter 4: Laying the Groundwork for Flak Cannon ............................................137
Chapter 5: Building the Flak Cannon Game Loop.................................................173
Chapter 6: Laying the Groundwork for No Tanks! ................................................207
Chapter 7: Creating the Full No Tanks! Game .......................................................253
Chapter 8: Creating the Color Drop Casual Puzzle Game ....................................329
Chapter 9: Creating the Dice Battle Puzzle Game .................................................365
Chapter 10: Blit Scrolling in a Tile-Based World ...................................................407
Chapter 11: Creating an Optimized Post-Retro Game ..........................................473
Chapter 12: Creating a Viral Game: Tunnel Panic .................................................571
Index ..........................................................................................................................621
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