Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

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Flash MX 2004 Games Figure 6.8 Optimizing the animation ‘Examples/Chapter06/Conker01.fla’ Summary If Macromedia get their way then Flash enabled devices will be ubiquitous. In this chapter we introduced some of the issues involved in creating content for these devices. If this is a field that interests you then check out Section 4 where the topics related to mobile devices are fully developed. 80
Section 2 Action Having developed the animation we now look at how to add interactivity to this art using ActionScript.
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Contents at a glance Introduction x
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Contents in summary Introduction xi
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Contents in summary Chapter 15: Maz
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Introduction: Learn to write Action
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1 Your first game Rather alarmingly
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Chapter 1: Your first game view of
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Using the Line tool Chapter 1: Your
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Chapter 1: Your first game Adding t
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Chapter 1: Your first game is true
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Chapter 1: Your first game would tr
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_x = startX; _y = startY; moveX = 0
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Section 1 Animation The first secti
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Flash MX 2004 Games Using the drawi
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Flash MX 2004 Games Figure 2.7 Stag
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Flash MX 2004 Games The Pencil tool
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Flash MX 2004 Games When you use th
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Flash MX 2004 Games Figure 2.25 Sca
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Flash MX 2004 Games To use a gradie
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Chapter 10: Keep it modular a game
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Chapter 10: Keep it modular a locat
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Chapter 10: Keep it modular Summary
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Chapter 11: Debugging would give th
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4 trace("n = " + n); 5 6 function s
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5 onClipEvent(enterFrame){ 6 count+
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10 name = "Box" + i; 11 eval(name).
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Chapter 11: Debugging 5 switch(i){
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Chapter 11: Debugging Using the Fla
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the Watch window, then you can see
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Figure 11.12 Debugging remotely Cha
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Chapter 12: Using external files Th
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with a query string version: Chapte
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Figure 12.3 Developing the Weather
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function loaded(success){ if (succe
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Chapter 12: Using external files
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13 Small games to keep them loading
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Figure 13.7 Developing the Pong gam
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14 Quizzes Quizzes are a very popul
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Chapter 14: Quizzes For now we will
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Figure 14.5 Creating a user Chapter
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Figure 14.8 Setting user permission
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Remember that a querystring takes t
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Chapter 14: Quizzes Summary Most of
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Chapter 15: Mazes The strategy used
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Chapter 15: Mazes Notice that the f
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Figure 15.3 Creating the tunnel mod
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Chapter 15: Mazes Open ‘Examples\
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Chapter 15: Mazes 32 dir = EAST; 33
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Chapter 15: Mazes Summary In common
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Figure 16.1 The traditional game Re
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Chapter 16: Board games 6 }else{ 7
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Chapter 16: Board games this way, i
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A simple example Figure 17.1 Develo
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Chapter 17: Platformers game much e
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Chapter 17: Platformers If the cat
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16 mc.scale = 1.0; 17 } 18 19 House
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Figure 18.1 Developing the football
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5 ScoreB = 0; 6 playerTeam = RED; 7
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Chapter 18: Sports simulations Havi
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Section 4 Flash for mobiles The mob
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Flash MX 2004 Games Table 19.1 Synt
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Flash MX 2004 Games ‘Device sound
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Flash MX 2004 Games The game uses k
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Flash MX 2004 Games 316 Table 19.2
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20 Using Flash on a PocketPC Pocket
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Flash MX 2004 Games 1 2 3 Conker
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Flash MX 2004 Games Reading the mai
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21 High score tables High score tab
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Figure 21.3 Creating an Access data
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22 Multi-player games using sockets
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Chapter 22: Multi-player games usin
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Figure 23.1 Select Add/Remove Progr
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Figure 23.5 Configuring IIS Figure
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Chapter 23: Using Flash Communicati
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24 Embedding Flash In this chapter
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Chapter 24: Embedding Flash You can
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Figure 24.5 Choosing the source fil
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Appendix A: Integrating Flash with
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Figure A.2 Importing the Flash inte
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Appendix A where ‘clipName’ is
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Appendix B: Tweening in code The ea
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Figure B.1 The graph of y = x 2 App
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Appendix B Joining together curves
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Appendix B want the result to start
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Figure B.7 Creating the tweening pr
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Appendix B Creating keyframes So fa
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Bibliography Art The Illusion of Li
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Index 3D Studio Max animations, 54
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Buttons: concepts, 6, 113-15, 126-8
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fashions, 60 simplicity benefits, 3
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Floats: bugs, 96 concepts, 95-7 Flu
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Lightwave modeller, 46-54, 69, 226,
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Paint Bucket tool, 4, 5, 27-9 optio
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Set Score button, 340-2 Set-top box
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outline, 17 sections, 17, 21-8 usag
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