Product Description: Creating Music for Games and Film covers the technical and the artistic side of creating compelling, exciting, and realistic music for video games and film. Featuring orchestral music, the book is a genuine, hands-on look at the practical steps to turning your composing instinct into a finished, useable, and marketable product...read more

Provides information on using Macromedia Flash Professional 8 to create computer games.

A guide to creating games using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 provides information on game design, story and character development, and the motion of a game.

Discusses the design and development of a Flash game, covering such topics as character animation, sound, friction and collision detection, gravity and physics, and control.

Assuming a basic knowledge of Flash MX, introduces ActionScript programming fundamentals while explaining how to create interactive multimedia projects and games.

Covers such topics as the Actions panel, variables, loops, objects, stun:design, modular ActionScript, sounds, sprites, drawing API, and coding.

Product Description: If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensable companions. This  package combines two vital elements: the most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript Rich, and practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in your Flash movie design...read more

Discusses Flash MX, covering the work environment, drawing, animations, motion guides, masks, symbols, imported graphics, sound, movies, and ActionScript. (view table of contents)

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