Packt is pleased to announce Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials,a complete end-to-end guide for creating fully featured multiplayer games. Written by Prashanth Hirematada, this book is a comprehensive guide packed with practical examples and insights into the fundamental knowledge for developing fully featured multiplayer games in Flash.
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an Object-oriented language called ActionScript.
Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials discusses the challenges encountered while developing a multiplayer game. The book starts with the essential ingredients to develop Flash games using Flash Builder 4 and AS3. This is followed by the basic Flash programming that is required in order to write any Flash game. Readers will learn to leverage the PulseUI framework with all the required screen management and understand the Pulse API model, a simple, yet powerful model for multiplayer gane development. The last section of the book illustrates four multiplayer game implementations of increasing complexity, namely, a simple turn-based TicTacToe, a multi-player Jigsaw, a card-based racing game and a complex space racing game.
The book is an easy-to-follow guide because of the excellent illustrations, working code samples and screen-shots provided in it. This makes it easy for beginner to intermediate Flash developers to understand game development, irrespective of their prior knowledge in networking and server-side programming.
Professional as well as amateur developers with an inclination to build synchronous multiplayer games with Flash will find this book a resourceful and interesting read. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/flash-10-to-create-exciting-multiplayer-game-essentials/book