ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds,9780321643360

ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780321643360
ISBN10: 0321643364
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-23
Publisher(s): New Riders
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This textbook is full of powerful information and great coding style. His examples are easy to understand while describing very difficult concepts. It provides insightful theory on game building and synchronization techniques. The textbook covers chatting, avatar creation, mini-gameintegration, pathfinding, and more. I highly recommend it.


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Summary

This book starts off with the basics of who wants these applications and why and quickly moves into virtual world game development. The main focus is on deconstruction of all aspects of multiplayer game development and virtual world development. The book covers chatting, avatar creation, mini-game integration, path finding, and more.

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

  1.    Web Game Landscape
  2.    Connecting Users
  3.    Security: You vs. Everyone Else
  4.    Introducing ElectroServer
  5.    Chat
  6.    Where Decisions are Made
  7.    Real-time Movement
  8.    Lobby System
  9.    Real-time Tank Game
10.    Tile-based Games
11.    Cooperative Game Play
12.    Isometric View
13.    Avatars
14.    Virtual Worlds
15.    Buddies and Relationships
16.    User Homes

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