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    Best Flash Game Book

    Hi all,
    What in your opinion is the best book on developing games in flash?

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    I thought Foundation Actionscript Animation: Making Things Move! by Keith Peters was really good.

    It has alot of the math based Actionscript covered in it, very important thing to learn.

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    first off how about beeing more modest,- there is no such kind of "best",- it all depends on one´s personal experience & oppinion.

    That beeing said my oppinion is that the internet itself is a very good source for that matter. What I usually don´t like on books: to often they always cover the basics and rip off your money one step further by publishing a bible instead of an expert knowledge slim & affordable book.
    In the past I really liked the books of "friendsof" and I own a few of them. What I like in particular is that many of their books are already focused on advanced material without the basic crap all over.
    But today I don´t look & work with such books anymore- all I need are some oReilly´s colin Moock books as Actionscript reference as they usually tell me just slightly more as the already good flash help can tell me.
    On a sidenote: I dont like macromedia´s/ flash´s online help for flash 8 its sooooo slow and crapped full with JS not very enjoyable to browse with Opera for example.

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    a great learning resource is the "Game Design Demystified" by Jobe Makar and "Flash Professional 8 Game Development" which gets into some basic 3D
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    Quote Originally Posted by renderhjs
    On a sidenote: I dont like macromedia´s/ flash´s online help for flash 8 its sooooo slow and crapped full with JS not very enjoyable to browse with Opera for example.
    True, but the offline help's even worse. Flash quits when I try to open the ActionScript Reference panel.

    Damnit, everything in the Mac versions of Flash is broken.
    http://www.birchlabs.co.uk/
    You know you want to.

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    The flash MX2k4 Offline Help is also Screwed, the pages for the Components Dictionary are vanished .. get always a "page not found" error ... Why did they doesn't fix it?

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