ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University eBook Download

The first of the two big flaws is that the book makes it almost impossible to follow along and make the game it describes while reading it.

The other major flaw is that the games he uses to teach you AS3 suck at the start. The games get better as you go on, becoming more action oriented after the first few, but considering the first few games are most likely too complex for quite a few people to be able to follow to the end, quite a few people might never get to make some decent games with this book.

While these flaws don't have to be a deal breaker, don't expect this book to teach you everything you need to know without some frustrations and several kiddie games no one should be all that proud of making.


Very Good, but not for an inexperienced programmer
This is a very good book to learn Flash game programming. It covers a number of different game types - card games, word games, arcade games, platform games.




Unfortunately Has Limited Value
I'm currently taking a Flash game development course at our community college and I thought this book would be a great supplement. There is exactly *one* game tutorial in the whole book that goes through the game making process--creating elements, testing, making things work, testing, adjusting and changing things, more testing...

Literally the rest of the book is a section-by-section examination of Rosenzweig's *completed* games. Rosenzweig no doubt went through the create, test, add, test, tweak, test process while making the games in the book, but he doesn't really teach any of that through the vast majority of the book.

Sure, there are some things to be learned by examining these games, but you're not going to learn the game-making *process* by poring over finished code. For an excellent book that teaches Actionscript as well as the game building process, look into Foundation Game Design with Flash (Foundations).

I really wanted to like AS3 Game University, but it let me down.

Overall, if you have a solid grasp of ActionScript, this shouldn't be a hard book to get into, but if you are looking to start developing with ActionScript, this book is not for you, many parts will leave you sitting there questioning how he came upon what he did, and you'll find yourself playing the matching game of trying to see if you stand a chance at having your source code even similar in layout to the FLA files provided, without looking at it first.


The Book
This book taught me not only how to build games using ActionScript 3.0 but how to build games (deal with collisions, animations....) The very best thing about it is that you learn ActionScript making games.

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