Introduction

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• Flash and Game Development

• Who Is This Book For?

• What Do You Need To Use This Book?

• Using the Example Games in Your Projects

• What You’ll Find in This Book

• The FlashGameU.com Website

This is a great time to be a Flash game developer. Right now, there is no better development tool for small and medium-size games.

Flash CS3 Professional (a.k.a. Flash 9) is fast, powerful, and easy to develop with. The key to this is ActionScript 3.0, the great new programming language inside this latest version of Flash.

ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 were often frustrating for game developers. They weren’t fast enough to get ...

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