Archive for July, 2010
Create exciting real-time multiplayer Flash games using Packt’s new book
Adobe flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an Object-oriented language called ActionScript. Flash 10 Multiplyer Game essentials discusses the challenges encountered while developing a multiplayer game. The book starts with the essential ingredients to develop Flash games using Flash Builder 4 and AS3. This is followed by the basic Flash programming that is required in order to write any Flash game. Readers will learn to leverage the PulseUI framework with all the required screen management and understand the Pulse API model, a simple, yet powerful model for multiplayer gane development. The last section of the book illustrates four multiplayer game implementations of increasing complexity, namely, a simple turn-based TicTacToe, a multi-player Jigsaw, a card-based racing game and a complex space racing game. The book is an easy-to-follow guide because of the excellent .. more »
Video to Flash Software © – Need to Play Videos on Your Site?
Webvideo marketing provides countless opportunities and benefits for any site owner - Video to Flash Software is the 'Entry Ticket' that can get you there. The most important thing about this technology is that it requires no more than several clicks to convert your digital movie(s). Searching for easy to use VDO-to-Web solutions? Read this article. Short overview Video to Flash Software compresses your videos into another file format called Flash-Video which enables you to display your videos on any Web page/Browser. After processing is done, all you have to do is: 1) Add a very short html code to your page, 2) Save all the new files together on your Webserver. The webvideos that are generated in this process are known as: 'streaming files' - they are simultaneously being transferred in real-time so that they are being received in a continuous stream. Advantages The solution described in this article enables us with the following: * This Web-marketing solution is a fraction of the cost of TV commercials.* It gives your visitors an important and immediate personal connection with you.* Enables you to create playlists.* Videomarketing is more viral than plain content marketing.* Easy conversion of all popular formats into .. more »