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COMPUTER SCIENCE ISN’T FOR EVERYONE

CHAPTER OUTLINE

A Little Groundwork

Common Game Types

Strategy and Simulation

Role-Playing Game (RPG)

Board/Card-Based Games

General Development Terms

Procedural Programming

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Design Patterns

Public, Protected, Private, and Internal

Game-Specific Development Terms 9

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Game Loop (or Main Loop)

Tile-Based Games

Flash Development Terms

Display Objects

Events and Listeners

Author Time, Compile Time, and Runtime

You Can Wake Up Now

A Little Groundwork

Before we get too far into Flash, it’s important to lay a foundation for game development, ...

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