Customer Reviews

Game Development with ActionScript

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I was wondering when the Game Dev Series was going to publish a book on Flash ActionScript and before I could think twice, I found this book in my search. The price was decent so I decided to try it out...

The author really knows how to break something down and make it easy to comprehend. I've never taken a programming class and after reading the book, I now feel very comfortable with Flash--and since it is a game programming book, he pretty much covered everything. His thorough explanations of functions and methods and other parts of the language were thorough enough to understand them completely yet without a redundant amount of info.

The author is also very responsive to questions. That is a first! So I recommend this book for anyone trying to break into the game dev side of Flash... Even if you are just curious, check the book out.

This is an enthusiastic book to read because once you open it and see how easy it is to follow you'll be excited to continue to read, and learn how to use flash mx. The author shows excellence in communicating the information to his readers. I am not fimilar with programming, but interested in programming and i was able to gain a lot of information that I was able to apply(which is the most important concept of the book). I definitely recommend this book to those who may want to enhance their knowledge or one who is just curious of the field.

I had used Flash 4 for some time. In Flash 4, if you wanted to do a certain command, like go to a different scene you went to the point and click menu and selected that.But I felt that was rather lacking in what you could do, so I wanted to get the latest and greatest version of Flash. I went out and bought it, (MX 2004) and I soon found out, that there really wasn't a point and click menu, and you needed at least some knowledge in ActionScript. I looked around, and found this book. And I am glad I did. The book is exellent. It's really easy to follow, between the detailed explantions and the demo's on the cd. I found it really easy to understand everything, and it gives you a great way to start programming.

It comes with a demo of Flash MX 2004, but I highly recommend buying it (I got it at an educational discount). Both MX and this book were well worth the money.

There are few author's that take the beginner's (dummy) route to teaching programming to the masses and this book shines brightly in that department. From start to finish, it seems that the author knows what I want to do and shows me thoroughly how to do it properly with different ways to tackle it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to take FLASH MX to sky high heights and not just leave this wonderful program to websites.

I'm a digtial media major and I had no clue about developing games-- I was extremly interested in it and the book provided a good base for my interest. It had great examples of flash actionscript and got straight to the point which made it easy to understand.

I'm more like a game freak. I wanted to learn more about games and development, with this book I have learned and enjoy reading it. It has a great flow to it. I highly recommend the book and to purchase this book.

For a book to be called game development this book sure is lacking on the game side of things.You create one big game at the end,but other than that there is really nothing else in there I would consider a game.That's why the book is getting 4 stars not 5.With that out of the way this book is very well written and the author explains things in great detail. There are alot of good nuggets of coding techniques in this book.

This book is such an easy to use guide for anyone interested in game development. I have recently become very interested in this subject and found the examples easy to follow and use. Also, the CD tutorial that comes with the book is very resourceful!!! I hope to see a follow up book from Lewis Moronta very soon!!!

the author is very clear in his teachings. He knows how programign should be taught and even if you havn't programmed in any language or know how to use Flash, This book will show you how to use and exicute your ideas to the fullest ability. Tjis book was deffently a good book

I'm currently majoring as a graphic designer and taking a few advance flash actionscript classes. My teacher recommended the book and it has helped me tremendously. The author makes everything seem so easy--I definitely recommend the book.