AdvancED Game Design with Flash

Rex van der Spuy is a video game designer and writer. He s written Foundation Game Design with Flash, Advanced Game Design with Flash and Foundation Game Design with AS3.0. Rex has designed games and done interactive interface programming Agency Interactive (Dallas), Scottish Power (Edinburgh), DC Interact (London), Draught Associates (London), and the Bank of Montreal (Canada). He also builds game engines and interactive interfaces for museum installations for PixelProject (Cape Town). In addition, he created and taught advanced courses in game design for the Canadian School of India (Bangalore, India). When not writing about games, making them, or playing them, he amuses himself by building experimental, autonomous, self-aware, multi-cellular parallel universes out of shoe boxes, scotch tape, spare milk bottle caps and bits of string . He claims, that this is a lot more entertaining than you might think, but we re skeptical.

• Modeling Game Data.- Vectors: Ghosts in the Machine.- Collisions Between Circles.- Collisions Between Polygons.- Pixel-Perfect Collision and Destructible Environments.- Explosions, Blitting, and Optimization.- Make It Fun! Sound, Music, and AI.- Tile-Based Game Design.- Pathfinding.- XML and External Data.