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Title: Building Great Flash MX Games by Matthew David, Matthew David ISBN: 0-7645-1985-9 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible Chocie
Comment: After trying to cope with this chapter on collision detection for over two weeks, I have decided that this book needs to be revised immensely. On page 47 you give a chunk of code to "Define the ball". The chunk of code you give lacks any commenting whatsoever, and worse yet, when I turned to page 48 I was given ONE SENTANCE to explain SEVEN FUNCTIONS. The sentance wasn't even helpful. "The instnace of the ball mocie clip moves down the stage to collide with the rectangle movie clip". Great, I have no idea which one of these functions does each. I know JS and C++ but AS is still new to me so wading through it is a bloody chore. Later on page 48 you have a chunk of code, this time with a comment. More helpful indeed, I understood this chunk, but you told me to insert it into line 19. That did all of nothing. A friend and senior programmer had to look at my code, and implement it much farther down, more like line 39 if I recall, plus change some of the code. That is rediculous. 48 goes on more. Defining boundries. You give me this line of code:
gBallBaseLoc[200,300];
gGameRect = [0,0,400,500];
gHMax = pGameRect[2] - 5;
You then explain gGameRect, the easies of all the variables to figure out, and omit to tell me the other two descriptions. I assume that BallBaseLoc is where the ball starts on screen and gHMax is the ceiling, but assuming isn't much good for me. Once again this code doens't work at the place you indstructed to put it in either.
What I'm trying to say is I got burned badly by this book. I am a college student, paying my tuition, transportation, and books on my own minimum wage part time job. I parted with my FIFTY DOLLARS [which is a LOT of money to me] for your book, and it hads caused me nothing but headaches. If this is only chapter four, I can't imagine what else lies in wait for me.
I'd think that I could solve my problems by looking at your downloadable source, but the truth is that this particular movie isnt even in your source. There are several games like pacman that you don't even mention in this chapter, but somehow the source is included, yet not this. I am upset.
The purpose of this email is to let you know that your integrity is comming into question from the poor work you have released. I recommend you revise this book ASAP, because your work is a reflection of you, and it isn't looking great to me. You did not respond to my earlier email, which is fine. I wanted to let you know that I am copying this email and putting it in every review of your book online that I can find, just to warn off other people in my situation. I hope you seriously consider the points I have brought up. Thanks,
-Zach Atkinson
Rating: 2
Summary: Where was the editor?
Comment: If you learn by following examples, this book is not for you. The author's enthusiasm for the topic seems genuine, but his instructions are haphazard. Unless you're two steps ahead of him (which, if you were, you probably wouldn't be interested in buying his book), you're going to have a hard time learning anything. Not surprisingly, there's a disclaimer in the front of the book that reads, "...the publisher and author...make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book..." Definitely not a user-friendly experience.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great introduction to game design in Flash MX
Comment: The code covers the basics of games and is great for the money. It does include some software introduction that doesn't come with Flash (Soundforge, Macromedia's communication Server and mentions 3D software like Swift 3D, etc). All of these seem like great packages to own if you are serious about making games.
I was having an issue getting the code from the site and the author replied with a valid explanation and information on major plans in supporting the book beyond pages themselves.
The book has a number of completed games to use as examples to learn from, as well as additional code on his site. If the reader has a basic programming knowledge of JavaScript or any C based language (Java, C++, C#, etc), the reader could learn and understand all the concepts within this book. It's definitely a good starting place.
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified by Jobe Makar ISBN: 0201770210 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript for Fun and Games (With CD-ROM) by Gary Rosenzweig ISBN: 0789727994 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Flash MX Games: ActionScript for Artists by Nik Lever ISBN: 0240519035 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash Mx 2004 Game Programming by Craig Murray, Justin Everett-Church ISBN: 1592000363 Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted by Kristian Besley, Sham Bhangal, Anthony Eden, Brad Ferguson, Brian Monnone, Keith Peters, Glen Rhodes, Steve Young ISBN: 1590592360 Publisher: Friends of ED Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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