Overview

In This Chapter

Thinking about gameplan logic

Using the break and return functions

Asking questions with conditionals

Using arrays

Writing code with the new event model

Creating text fields dynamically

Creating Movie Clips dynamically

Using setInterval

Using SharedObject

Creating a game requires much more than programming. It is a combination of many skills — game design, interaction design, visual and sound design, and scripting — that brings it all together. These skills also represent the different phases of game design and are covered in this chapter. You must devote your attention to all these aspects of design to produce a successful game.

To illustrate the different aspects of game design, we deconstruct a simple game, the universally known Hangman.