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BenMaddox
BenMaddox

Reputation: 1800

Switching from Silverlight to Flash for Games - Recommended Reading?

I have been working on some games in Silverlight. However, the community and portal support are still rudimentary at this point. While I expect it to improve over the next couple years, I don't plan to wait around for that.

I'm coming from a .Net heavy development background. What would you suggest I read and practice to start developing my games in Flash?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 203

Answers (5)

user26270
user26270

Reputation: 7084

I found this article/tutorial pretty helpful. It's a step-by-step guide to creating an animated game with Flex. Covers double-buffering, animations, embedded resources, sound, collision, etc. Pretty good design with OO principles as well.

Flash Game Development with Flex and Actionscript - Getting Started

Upvotes: 1

Dave Swersky
Dave Swersky

Reputation: 34810

You may want to consider using Flex Developer as your primary platform for development. The Flash editor is designed more for animation. Develop your visual assets as SWFs in Flash and use Flex for your coding/development.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Kinney
Adam Kinney

Reputation: 1075

You may find ShineDraw really useful, as well. Terence Tsang, chooses a task or effect to do in both Flash and Silverlight and then shares the results and the code samples.

Upvotes: 1

Allan
Allan

Reputation: 3314

Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock as clownbaby suggests. Very good book for grasping AS3 in general.

ActionScipt 3.0 Animation Making Things Move! by Keith Peters is great for more advanced topics and actual game related stuff.

Good resources:

There are plenty more excellent blogs out there these are just some off the top of my head

Upvotes: 2

danjarvis
danjarvis

Reputation: 10190

amazon.com is your friend.

Essential Actionscript

Upvotes: 2

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