Flash Games Programming - UK training course
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM - Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM (GMT)
Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom
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Flash is the perfect combination of creativity and programming, and this is especially true with Flash games. Whether it's space invaders, a 20 level platformer, or a webcam controlled bubble bursting game, you'll learn everything you need to produce slick, professional and playable Flash games.
Flash games specialist and Papervision3D team member Seb Lee-Delisle puts the fun back into Flash with this brand new 2 day game programming course. Whether you're an intermediate or advanced Flash programmer, you'll learn everything you need to know to make exciting and addictive Flash games.
Working through the classic retro games (who knew that you could learn simple trigonometry from Asteroids and basic AI from Space Invaders?), it'll be inspirational and fun, but most of all you'll gain the essential technical skills and techniques that the professionals use. Several case studies from his team at Plug-in Media with be reviewed in detail, including Extreme Pamplona (Sure for Men), Nev's Jambuster (BBC) and LunarLander3D.
We'll be back in our favourite training venue, the Digital Lounge at the Lighthouse in the heart of the North Laine in Brighton.
To keep the price down, we ask that you bring your own laptop. You will receive course materials and further instructions shortly before the course starts.
ALSO FROM SEB LEE-DELISLE - OFFICIAL PAPERVISION3D TRAINING COURSE 1-2 February 2010
As an example of Seb's presenting style, here is his £5app Christmas special :
Festive £5 app: Seb and his magic particles from ribot on Vimeo.
DRAFT SCHEDULE *
DAY 1
- Inspirational Kick-Start
- Game Types
- Monetisation and Viral potential
- Benefits of Flash
- Creativity and buildability
- Narrative
- Graphical style verses playability
- Working process
WORKING EXAMPLE - Pong - code provided
- Arranging your classes
- Interactivity
- Simple AI
- Collision detection - simple
Easy Maths for games!
- Basic Trigonometry
- Vectors
- Simple physics simulation
- Velocity
- Drag and Gravity
- Simple collisions
WORKING EXAMPLE - Lunar Lander - code provided
Collision detection
- hitTest - shape and point
- Custom coded
- AABB - AABB
- Circle / Circle
- Circle / AABB with Perpendicular Lines
- Circle / Line
- Line / Line
- Predictive collision detection
CASE STUDY : Nev's Jam Buster
http://www.pluginmedia.net/portfolio/showcase.php?itemUID=7
Collision reactions
- Circle / AABB with perp line
- Circle / Circle (conservation of energy)
Platform game physics
- Simple Rectangle collisions
- Connecting the player to an edge
- Slopes
- Optimisation
- Grids
CASE STUDY - Blue Peter Turkish Bizarre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/games/turkishbizarre.shtml
CASE STUDY - Extreme Pamplona
http://pluginmedia.net/portfolio/showcase.php?itemUID=6
Simple 3D Physics
3D soccer shootout
- Direction / Spin
- Collision detection - vector / plane
- How we made the net ripple
CASE STUDY - Stan James Original Free Kick Challenge
http://www.miniclip.com/games/free-kick-challenge/en/
CASE STUDY - Philips The Simple Game
http://pluginmedia.net/portfolio/showcase.php?itemUID=13
Physics engines
- Overview of available engines
- Making a stacking game
Frameworks
- Game pages
- Preloaders
- Separating game data from game engine
- Game loops
- State machine
- Inheritance vs Decoration (component based architecture)
High score systems
- Server side options
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- Security and encryption
DAY 2
Sound
- The importance of sound
- Sourcing sounds
- Online
- Analogue sound generation with CFXR
- Recording your own
- Processing sounds
- Triggering sounds
- Different compression options
Music
- DIY - GarageBand, loops.
- Library Music
- Commissioning music
Working with artists
- Processes for true collaboration
- Refinement of both code and art simultaneously
- Saves time
Processing artwork
- Working with the timeline
- Optimising graphics
- cacheAsBitmap
- Manual bitmap caching
Particle systems
- Making your own particle system
- Smoke / sparkles / explosions
Making your own 3D system
- Why?
- 3D to 2D conversion - single points
- 3D particles
- 3D shapes
WORKING EXAMPLE - Lunar Lander 3D
http://sebleedelisle.com/2009/07/apollo-11-40th-anniversary-edition-of-moonlander3d/
Papervision3D
- Turning a 2D game into 3D - Pong 3D
CASE STUDY - Staraoke Stage Fright
http://www.boomerangtv.co.uk/advertising_microsites/staraoke/games/stagefright/index.html
Motion Detection
- Accessing the webcam
- Light detection
- Motion detection
- Motion tracking
Real World gaming
CASE STUDY - Pyrotechnics to the People
http://sebleedelisle.com/2008/05/interactive-digital-fireworks-new-video/
Multi player games overview
- Introduction and benefits
- Turn based
- Realtime
- Available systems
- Server side logic
Practical section (time allowing)
A hands-on section where you will have time to put your ideas into practice using what you've learned so far.
Wrap up and closing comments
*Subject to change and revisions without notice.
When
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- to -
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM (GMT)
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Where
Lighthouse
28 Kensington Street
1 Zone B
BN1 4AJ Brighton And Hove
United Kingdom
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sebleedelisle.com
Founder of creativejs.com, Seb Lee-Delisle is an internationally recognised creative coder specialising in large scale installations. Whether building digital interactive fireworks displays or glow-stick voting systems, his work uses technology to bring people together in fun and exciting ways. He also produces creative visual effects for websites, games and apps in many programming languages and platforms.
He loves sharing the creativity of code with artists and programmers alike using physics, motion detection, 3D and particle systems. His work has pushed the boundaries of what is possible both on and off the web, and won two BAFTAs with Plug-in Media, the agency he co-founded in 2004.
A highly sought-after speaker, his recent Creative JavaScript / HTML5 workshop series sold out within hours. He co-hosts the Creative Coding Podcast, his blog can be found at seb.ly and he tweets @seb_ly.
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