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How to Follow Best Practices AND Keep Your Sanity
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By
Christopher Griffith, Chris Griffith has been working in Flash for close to 10 years. Starting out of school at Tribal DDB Worldwide, he created sites, games,
and apps for well-known clients like Pepsi, Mountain Dew, American Airlines, Frito-Lay, Starbucks, and the Ad Council. In 2007 he joined
the team at Blockdot, Inc where he currently holds the position of Senior Game Developer, building work for clients like LEGO, Microsoft,
Anheiser-Busch, Kraft, Nabisco, and WebMD. In 2009, Focal Press published his first book on Flash game development.
Description
This book covers Flash for the everyday developer. The average Flash developer doesn't have luxurious timelines, employers who understand
the value of reusability, or the help of an information architect to design a usable experience. This book helps bridge the gap for these
coders who may be used to C++, Java, or C# and want to move over to Flash. Griffith covers real-world scenarios pulled from his own experiences
developing games for over 8 years in the industry.
Gifts from Griffith's REAL-WORLD experiences include: Game design templates
and pre-written scripts to automate tasks within Flash; Classes for handling common math computations used in gaming, so that game developers
can see how to set up a simple game flow; Powerful debugging tools for your games(debuggers for Flash games are hard to come by, and
this book provides them for you).
The associated web site offers: Code from the game examples in the book with fully build-able
source files. Additional code snippets, classes, and utilities. Scripts for automating tedious and repetitive tasks within Flash. Template
game-design documents for planning game proposals in the same manner outlined in the book. Links to other helpful online resources for
both Flash and game development.
Audience
Flash web designers and developers, Flash and Shockwave game developers.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Contents
AI to UI - An introduction to game development in Flash terms; You Have to Start Somewhere - the building blocks of Flash games; On the
Job - Different use cases for Flash game development; Dev Utopia - Striving for standards and ideals
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Paperback, 352 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-81178-9
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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