ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University

This is a great time to be a Flash game developer. Right now, there is no better development tool for small and medium-size games. Flash CS3 Professional (a.k.a. Flash 9) is fast, powerful, and easy to develop with. The key to this is ActionScript 3.0, the great new programming language inside this latest version of Flash. ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 were often frustrating for game developers. They weren’t fast enough to get key tasks done, and odd bugs and unexpected behavior often slowed down production. ActionScript 3.0 is a very different animal. You’ll find yourself developing quickly and effortlessly. Things just work, and work well. And the speed of ActionScript 3.0 will make your game design ideas work just as you imagined them. Let this book become your guide to Flash game development. I hope you enjoy learning from this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.