If you want to take your Flash Professional 8 skills to a new level while learning how to produce games that rival anything available on the web, this is the book for you. Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development is written by a professional game developer. Using the power of Flash and the most recent advancements in ActionScript, the book progresses through the entire development process to teach programmers and Web developers how to create professional quality games quickly. It teaches techniques for producing fast 3D effects that can be used with "cheat" techniques to produce powerful, high-performance results. It details the actual science of game development, including design, character development, the physics and motion of a game, and audio issues. And in this new edition, all of the latest features of Flash Professional 8 are covered, including the new sound channels, bitmap caching, texture pages, and more. The book covers many advanced topics in a simple, easy to understand way. It emphasizes the incredible power of the new BitmapData class and teaches how it can be used to take the performance of Flash games to a whole new level. It has never been easier to get right down to the pixel level and manipulate things at blazing speeds, making previously impossible games a breeze to make. So get to your computer, insert the CD-ROM, and prepare to begin your journey into the world of Flash Professional 8 game development.

This book is the indispensable companion of any and all professional or aspiring web designers, web developers, cartoonists, etc, who are serious about pushing their Flash designs to the very limits of possibility with Flash MX 2004. The Designers ActionScript Reference package combines two vital elements:- Rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in your Flash web and application designs - The most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource on the market for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript In this Designers ActionScript Reference, we've packed in 21 chapters of tutorials, an exhaustive dictionary featuring hundreds of detailed reference entries, and hundreds more example code files. The CD reproduces the complete ActionScript dictionary, providing you with a comprehensive and portable reference tool. Our aim is to make this book the most complete Flash MX 2004 ActionScript resource, bar none - the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust.