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Flash MX Games: ActionScript for Artists
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Author: Nik Lever
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0240519035
Publisher: Focal Press (11 December, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 345,231
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
A great book for intermediate flash designers.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to take their Flash skills to the next level, that is grasping the fundamentals of Actionscript and how to formulate and execute code based solutions for interactive games. I came to this book using Flash MX only on a visual basis, adding basic interactivity only with Flash's preset commands. I can honestly say that now I have a firm grasp of the Actionscript basics (Variables, Conditions, Loops), and even tackled collision detection in the later sections. The text is clear and concise, and the accompanying CD compliments this, containing the completed projects for you to disect and see the code in action for yourself as you read the book. Used together with a Flash MX reference book, it is definitely possible to gain enough knowledge from this book to put together your own games, and as this was my original reason for buying it, would say that it was money well spent.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Useless
The book provides many samples of code that is incorrect. You spend more time debugging the books code then the learning of the lesons themselves. I could see it's usefullness if you already know actionscripting, but isn't the purpose of this book to teach it.
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