ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds: Learn Multi-user Interaction Concepts from the Experts 1st Edition

by Jobe Makar (Author)

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The demand for multiplayer games and virtual worlds has exploded over the last few years. Not only do companies want them for site stickiness through social networking, but developers have tremendous interest in exploring this niche area. While developing multiplayer content is challenging, it isnt as difficult as you might think, and it is fun and highly rewarding!

ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds explains fundamental multiplayer concepts from connecting to a server to real-time latency hiding techniques. In this book youll learn:

How to connect users to achieve real-time interaction

When to make decisions on the server versus the game client

Time synchronization techniques

How to use dead reckoning smoothing to hide network latency

About tile-based games the isometric view

Techniques for customizing and rendering avatars in a virtual world

In addition, youll learn everything that goes into building:

A real-time multiplayer tank battle game

A real-time multilayer cooperative game

A virtual world

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The demand for multiplayer games and virtual worlds has exploded over the last few years. Not only do companies want them for site stickiness through social networking, but developers have tremendous interest in exploring this niche area. While developing multiplayer content is challenging, it isn't as difficult as you might think, and it is fun and highly rewarding!

ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds explains fundamental multiplayer concepts from connecting to a server to real-time latency hiding techniques. In this book you'll learn:

How to connect users to achieve real-time interaction

When to make decisions on the server versus the game client

Time synchronization techniques

How to use dead reckoning smoothing to hide network latency

About tile-based games the isometric view

Techniques for customizing and rendering avatars in a virtual world

In addition, you'll learn everything that goes into building:

A real-time multiplayer tank battle game

A real-time multilayer cooperative game

A virtual world

About the Author

Jobe Makar is a founder of and Chief Game and Virtual World Architect for Electrotank (www.electrotank.com), a company that specializes in online multiplayer game and virtual world development technologies and services. He is a developer on the widely used EUP virtual world and MMOG platform (www.eupsite.com). Jobe has developed over 200 Flash games and 9 virtual worlds over the last 10 years and has authored several books on advanced Flash, ActionScript, and game programming.

Product details

ASIN : 0321643364
Publisher : New Riders Pub; 1st edition (July 15, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 299 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780321643360
ISBN-13 : 978-0321643360
Item Weight : 1.17 pounds
Dimensions : 7.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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C. Moeller

Great book on multiplayer concepts that you can apply for any language

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013

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This book contains a lot of information, but the most helpful are the concepts used when working with multiplayer programming. The book does use their socket server, but they did write it in a way that you can apply the concepts for whatever language you're working in. Things like interpolation, and ways to try to sync the client and server. A decent amount of information about lag compensation in games, that I haven't found elsewhere.

It is currently my main go to book while working in kyronet in Java. There could be a lot more information, and I would love to see a follow up book, but I haven't been able to find as much information to actually start multiplayer game programming, as what is in this book.

Definitely recommended!

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dugdod

good enough to be in my colleciton

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2015

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I buy lots of books and this one is good enough to be in my colleciton

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Silver Pen

Action Script for Multiplayer games

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2013

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Great book if you have some idea of what your doing, lots of info. and ways of using the program which makes a the book a good idea to read.

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Denard D. Springle IV

Nothing more than a promotional piece

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2010

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I was very excited about this book when I read about it here on Amazon and read others reviews, but was very sadly disappointed by the content of this book when it finally arrived. First, it's very small - much smaller than any other book worth reading on Actionscript. Second, it boils down to little more than a promotional piece for ElectroServer - the commercial game server written by the company started by the author. It lacks any clear examples, and frankly has more 'this topic is too complex to be covered in this book' statements than any other book I've ever read... ever. The examples given are disjointed - I've not seen a single actual class in the whole book - just insignificant bits and pieces of code that don't go together. Lots of examples show just a tiny fraction of the whole class and leave you either having to dig through a download of content that should have been included with the book for the amount of money they charged for this fireplace starter, or imagine it for yourself. Very poorly written, very poorly done and very disappointing to someone hoping to learn more about developing better multiplayer content - but even for a seasoned professional this book is a hard read. Spare your nickel and give it to any other author who writes books to help others learn through working examples instead of shameless self promotion of commercial products through manuscript. I find the whole thing to be very distasteful to be honest about it and will not buy another book from this author ever again.

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Evgeniy

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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2010

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I plan to create Flash based on-line games. This book is very helpful. So I have all info for creating my flash game on Electroserver now. This is not for Flash newbies.

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D. Chen

An excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2010

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This is an excellent book on building multiplayer games with ActionScript 3. It provides insightful theory on game building and synchronisation techniques. Coming from distributed systems background, I particularly enjoyed the section on latency hiding, and the implication of security concerns in multiplayer games.

The theories in this book were put into practice with examples. A good attempt is made to make these examples accessible without the expensive Flash IDE. However, I agree with another reviewer that a Flash version should be provided. Having said that, I found the free Flash examples/tutorials on EsWiki work ([...]) well with this book.

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Young

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014

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I love it

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Michael A Derrick

Crap.

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2011

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This book was written wholly for the purpose of selling their server. It doesn't delve into anything helpful considering action scripts other then basic game design theory. (which some of the theory is good, most definitely NOT WORTH THE $).

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Ole

cool book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2013

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cool book I have not finished yet, but it takes the time too lol but I'm going to finish it

Mr Z

A good starter for experienced coders

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2010

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I have read a few books by Jobe Makar and a bundle of online stuff before, he is well known in the Flash community whch is one of the reasons why I bought this book.

As the other reviewers have said, this is not a book for AS3 newbies, it is really aimed at people who are already proficient at Flash, probably have already made some basic Flash games before and are looking at moving onto the multiplayer scene.

He is one of he owners of electrotank and created the electroservers and uses it for the platform for multiplayer games (as opposed to coldfusion or any other platform, this is fine but what I have a problem with is that he is using non-Adobe software for compiling the projects (Flash develop). Don't get me wrong, I am all for opensource and freeware etc but i am someone who has moved from being a proficient Flash 8 developer to CS5 newbie(yes I know a big jump), the adobe Flex builder is also a free download and I would have preffered that maybe both platforms were used or atleast an explanation of how to use Flex with the files (yes I know it may be fairly straight forward but for a lot of people who only had Flash 8 and now have Flash CS5, Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst CS5 and learning AS3 it can be frustrating that your sizable investment is completely discarded).

This being said it is a fairly decent book, it covers several concepts and explains the code failry well and since there aren't many other alternative books on the subject it is a good start to help you on your way.

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