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Building Flash Games with Starling
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Building Flash Games with Starling

with Lee Brimelow

 


Join Lee Brimelow in this project-style course that teaches how to build a Flash-based game with Flash Builder 4.6, Flash Player 11, and the Starling framework. Starling, a pure ActionScript 3.0 library for advanced graphics, extends Flash Player 11's support for the modern GPU (graphic processing unit) to enable visual presentations and games in the browser or as a mobile app.

Starting with installation and configuration of Starling and creation of a Flash Builder project, the course shows how to prepare and import graphical assets, create MovieClip classes from sprite sheets, manage various gaming objects, detect collisions, and add both particle and sound effects. The finished game can be deployed to any browser or mobile device that integrates Flash Player 11, which was released in September 2011.
Topics include:
  • Downloading and installing Starling and Flash Builder
  • Creating the project
  • Creating the main game class, static assets class, and other classes
  • Building the state machine
  • Creating a static assets class
  • Adding images
  • Creating sprite sheets with Texture Packer
  • Creating and importing bitmap fonts
  • Detecting collisions
  • Adding particle effects
  • Adding sound effects

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author
Lee Brimelow
subject
Developer, Web, Games
software
ActionScript 3.0, Flash Builder 4.6, Flash Player 11
level
Intermediate
duration
2h 57m
released
Jul 05, 2012

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Lee Brimelow

Lee Brimelow

Lee Brimelow is an award-winning interactive designer who is currently focused on developing new and innovative ways of using Flash for online learning. He has worked for companies such as America Online, Netscape, and eBay and currently works for SUMMIT, an interactive learning department at Stanford University. Lee recently won a Flashforward Arrow in the Education category for his video-based Flash learning site at www.gotoandlearn.com. He also maintains a blog devoted to Flash development at www.leebrimelow.com.
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