Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials

简介 Book Description:
Create exciting real-time multiplayer games using Flash
* A complete end-to-end guide for creating fully featured multiplayer games
* The author’s experience in the gaming industry enables him to share insights on multiplayer game development
* Walk-though several real-time multiplayer game implementations
* Packed with illustrations and code snippets with supporting explanations for ease of understanding
In Detail
Multiplayer web-based games are more popular than any others, and developing your own is an exciting challenge. But developing multiplayer games is a complex task. There are few resources that explain how to build multiplayer games from the ground up.
This comprehensive guide is packed with practical examples and insights into basic and fundamental knowledge for developing real-time multiplayer games in Flash.
This book starts with the essential ingredients to develop Flash games using Flash Builder 4 and AS3, followed by the basic Flash programming that you need to know in order to write any Flash game. You will learn the basic features that a developer must implement for any multiplayer game. The chapters discuss the challenges you will face when developing a multiplayer game. You will learn to leverage the PulseUI framework to quickly develop a multiplayer game along with all the required screen management. The simple, but powerful, Pulse API model required for multiplayer game development is thoroughly explained as well. As you go through these concepts, you will learn to implement them using code examples.
The last section takes you through four multiplayer game implementations of increasing complexity: first a simple turn-based TicTacToe, followed by a multi-player Jigsaw, a card-based racing game, and finally a complex space racing game.
A development guide for all your multiplayer games
What you will learn from this book
* Explore the essential functionalities of a Game Server
* Exchange information between the players using game state actions
* Customize parts of the game screens–login, new game screen, players, friends display, and more
* Prototype your multiplayer games rapidly using PulseUI
* Walk through the code that manages the graphics of a game
* Model complex game environments using XML game schema
* Design the schema needed to implement a game using game states
* Delve into the basics of screen management and the Pulse game state APIs
* Deploy the game design schema required for multiplayer games
Approach
The book provides all the essentials needed to implement a fully featured multiplayer game in Flash. It begins by dissecting a basic hello-world example providing its code and an insight into each feature that is required. Following the book is easy because of the excellent illustrations and working code samples. Four complete game implementations with increasing complexity are discussed; each example is presented with detailed design, implementation code, and screenshots.
Who this book is written for
This book discusses essentials for beginner to intermediate Flash Developers who have perhaps created a game or two in Flash and want to take the next step, and create something that can be played by two or more players over the internet. This book will appeal to professional and amateur developers with an inclination to build synchronous multiplayer games with Flash. No prior knowledge of networking or server-side programming is required.

目录 Summary of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Game Interface Design
Chapter 3: Avatar and Chat
Chapter 4: Lobby and Room Management
Chapter 5: Game Logic
Chapter 6: Multiplayer Game Example: Tic-tac-toe
Chapter 7: Multiplayer Game Example: Jigsaw
Chapter 8: Card-based Racing Game Tutorial
Chapter 9: Real-time Racing Game Tutorial
Appendix A: Introduction to FlashBuilder and AS3
Appendix B: Graphics Programming in AS3
Index

关于作者 About the Author
Prashanth Hirematada, is the founder of Gamantra, a game technology company focused on Network engines and server platforms. Prior to founding Gamantra in 2006, he was a Chief Architect at Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd., where he was responsible for creating a common game development platform for all MMOG initiatives at Shanda. He joined Shanda in 2004 through Shanda’s acquisition of Zona, Inc., a MMOG game technology company, headquartered in Santa Clara, USA. At Zona, as a Technical Chief Architect, he was responsible for server-side architecture and implementation of MMOG framework. Prior to joining Zona in 2001, Prashanth worked in various Silicon Valley based technology start-up companies developing software at various levels for well over seven years.
His master’s thesis was a distributed implementation of the Message Passing Library (MPI) on a heterogeneous network of workstations including Solaris, HP-UX, OpenStep, and Windows-NT. He received his MS in Computer Science from the California State University, Sacramento, California, in 1994 and his BS in Computer Science from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India in 1992. You can contact him at prash@gamantra.com.

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AdvancED Game Design with Flash

简介 Book Description:
Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun. Once you’ve mastered the basics, a new world is opened up to you, enabling you to take your existing skills to the next level and discover new skills that will in turn open new doors. This book is a direct continuation of Foundation Game Design with Flash, and is a complete point-by-point roundup of the most important skills a Flash game designer needs to know. You’ll increase your ActionScript knowledge and your game design skills while creating some excellent example games. You’ll learn advanced collision detection skills; professional AI and pathfinding; and how to load and save game data, create destructible environments, and build and switch game levels.
* Each chapter highlights a new advanced technique illustrated by practical examples.
* Examples of games are given in a variety of genres, all of which take an object-oriented programming approach.
* Advanced game design topics are covered, including vector-based collision reaction, pathfinding, billiard ball physics, and modeling game data.
What you’ll learn
* How to use vectors to figure out where objects are going and how they should react to collisions
* Pixel-perfect collision detection for irregular shapes using hitTest and bitmapData
* How to use design patterns and abstract data models to manage complex games efficiently
* How to create advanced enemy AI systems using pathfinding strategies in grid-based environments
* How to use XML to load and save game data
* How to use sound and music in games and create particle effects using blitting.
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced Flash and ActionScript 3.0 developers who want to take their game design skills to a professional level. Readers should have a solid background in object-oriented ActionScript 3.0 programming, and may have attempted game projects of their own. If you have read Foundation Game Design with Flash, then this book will be a natural next step for you. The book covers game design strategies and techniques common to many game design platforms—not just Flash—and will help you create top-quality games that are quick to build and easy to maintain.

目录 Summary of Contents
Chapter 1: Modeling Game Data ……………………. 1
Chapter 2: Vectors: Ghosts in the Machine …………………. 67
Chapter 3: Collisions Between Circles ………………………….. 161
Chapter 4: Collisions Between Polygons…………………. 223
Chapter 5: Pixel-Perfect Collision and Destructible Environments……………….. 305
Chapter 6: Explosions, Blitting, and Optimization………………. 367
Chapter 7: Make It Fun! Sound, Music, and AI ……… 445
Chapter 8: Tile-Based Game Design………………………….. 503
Chapter 9: Pathfinding……………………………. 623
Chapter 10: XML and External Data …………………………. 691

关于作者 About the Author
Rex van der Spuy is a freelance multimedia designer specializing in Flash game design, interface design and ActionScript programming, as well as standards-based XHTML+CSS+DOM website design.
He migrated to the multimedia industry from an earlier career in film and television, having graduated with a BFA in Film/Video from York University (Toronto) in 1993 and spending a number of years working as an independent producer and freelance cameraman. He has designed Flash games and done interactive interface programming for clients such as Agency Interactive (Dallas,) Scottish Power (Edinburgh,) DC Interact (London,) Draught Associates (London) and the Bank of Montreal (Canada.) He also builds game engines and interactive interfaces for museum installations for PixelProject (Cape Town.) In addition, he taught advanced courses in Flash Game Design and Shockwave 3D Game Design for the Canadian School of India (Bangalore, India) and produced two online guide books to Flash Game Design and ActionScript programming (available for free download from his website, www.kaleidoscope-multimedia.com.)
Rex is a also a proponent of standards-based, W3C compliant accessible XHTML coding. He has produced hand-coded websites for Meon Villa, Conran Events, Apax.com, the British-German Association (UK) and the Europan 8 architecture competition,—all meeting strict W3C guidelines and accessibility requirements.
In his spare time, Rex has done a considerable amount of technical and fiction writing and maintains a semi-professional musical career as a performer on the sitar. Rex currently divides his time equally between Canada, India and South Africa and works on consulting and software development projects for clients in India, North America and the UK.

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