Fwd: [casual_games] Recommendations for a book on Flash games creation?

[Duncan Gough]

And here's a link to Jobe's book that I obviously meant to include in  
that email..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201770210/qid=1128502250/ 
sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-0257968-3719663

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> From: duncan <duncan at suttree.com>
> Date: 5 October 2005 10:03:41 BDT
> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>
> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Recommendations for a book on Flash  
> games creation?
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> And here's a link to Jobe's book that I obviously meant to include  
> in that email..
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201770210/qid=1128502250/ 
> sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-0257968-3719663
>
>
> On 5 Oct 2005, at 09:59, Duncan Gough wrote:
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>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Jobe Makar's book is has lots of very good examples of several  
>> different types of games (puzzle, isometric) as well as plenty of  
>> solid code excerpts for collision detection, real-time chat and  
>> socket servers.
>>
>> The Flash Game Coders mailing list is generally quite quiet but  
>> there are plenty of very helpful people on there too:
>>
>> http://proalias.com/mailman/listinfo/flashgamecoders_proalias.com
>>
>> Finally, the flash paper that has already been recommended is not  
>> just worth reading, it's worth printing off and reading away form  
>> your computer:
>>
>> http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/flash-paper.htm
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Duncan
>> --
>>
>> http://www.millionsofgames.com
>> http://www.suttree.com
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>>
>> Personally, I'd get to grips with Flash first and then worry about  
>> Flash 8 later.
>> On 5 Oct 2005, at 01:27, Matthew Ford wrote:
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>>> n00b alert!
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a good intermediate-level book for making  
>>> games in Flash?
>>>
>>> I've programmed assembly and C in the wayback, and once worked  
>>> with similar mid-level development tools, so I don't need the  
>>> super-basics. I don't seek game design advice in the book. Help  
>>> for coding live online multiplayer games is a big plus.
>>>
>>> Overall I just seek a good resource to read on a plane to get up  
>>> to speed on Flash game creation.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
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