This document provides information about Me & Csharks, a game development company that has created over 300 games over 10 years across multiple platforms. It discusses the different roles involved in game development, popular game programming languages and frameworks, and provides an overview of the Starling framework for building 2D cross-platform games using ActionScript 3. It also outlines some exercises for working with Starling, such as adding images and animations to the stage, implementing trigonometry for rotation, and building a basic bouncing ball game.

2. Me & Csharks
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10 years of Game Development
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2D games for PC, Web, iOS & Android
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Eye candy art
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More than 300 games created
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Covers tech like Actionscript, Starling, LibGDX, Cocos2D,
OpenFL, Unity, CreateJS, Smartfox Server, Torque etc
Creators of top games in Job / Management game
category
Active in evangelising game development

3. Some of our games

4. You
Let me know my audience

5. Some 2D Game examples

6. How to make them ?

7. Building blocks of a game
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Art & UI - Artists
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Code - Programmer
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Sound & Music - Sound Artists
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Story & Game Play - Creative Director
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Play testing – Testers
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Marketing team, Publisher, Analytics team, ...

8. Platforms
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PC (Mac , Linux)
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Web
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PS4
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Xbox
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Android
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iPhone, iPad
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Wii, DS, PSP
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Microconsoles, Smart TVs

9. Different tracks for a game programmer
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C++ - Ultimate, Hard, Free, Puli
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Java - Medium, Moderate, Android, Free
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C# - Great, Modern, XNA, Unity, Moderate, Microsoft ?
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Javascript - Web, Unity, Easy, Free, Fragmented
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Starling uses Actionscript which is Java + javascript

10. A Game Engine
We use game frameworks to build our game
engine

11. Alternate 2D Game frameworks
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Web - Phaser, CreateJS
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Android - LibGDX (crossplatform), AndEngine
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IOS - Cocos2DX (crossplatform), Sparrow, SpriteKit
Under the hood
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DirectX
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OpenGL / OpenGL ES

12. For the Non – Programmer ???
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Web – Construct 2
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Crossplatform - Gamemaker

13. The slide many of you may hate...
What else does a game developer need
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Programming skill
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Creative imagination
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Patience
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Should be a gamer
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Logic & analytical skill. Find hacks & shortcuts.
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Above all strong MATH skills - trigonometry, matrices,
physics equations, progressions etc

14. Hero of the day – Starling Framework
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Created by Daniel Sperl of Gamua
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Actionscript 3 language
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Optimised for touch based devices

15. Flash & Actionscript
Flash is now only used for
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Games
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Video

16. Why Starling ?
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Crossplatform
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High Performance
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Optimised for touch
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Easy to learn, very same as AS3 default classes
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Field tested & port of Sparrow
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Great community
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Supported by Adobe
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Open source !

17. OOP refresher
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AS3 is same as Java
A Class
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Independent blue prints of functionality. Eg, Ball
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Methods (functions). Eg, bounce()
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Properties (variables). Eg, weight
var myBall:Ball=new Ball();
trace(myBall.weight);
myBall.bounce();

18. OOP refresher
Inheritance
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Class can extend another class's functionality
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Uses 'extends' keyword for the same
eg, Tiger extends Cat which already extends Animal
public class Cat extends Animal {
...
}

19. Development setup
We will need the following for Starling development
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Flash Builder / Flashdevelop / FDT
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Flex SDK, Compiler
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AIR SDK, for crossplatform deployment
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Flash Player standalone program for testing
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Starling framework classes

20. Starling Graphics

21. Simple Starling code

22. Break !
Next we will start some exercises.
Let us check the development setup first.

23. Exercise 1
Add an image to stage!

24. Exercise 2
a. Move the image!
b. Set image at click position!
c. Frame based v/s Time based

25. Exercise 3
Texture Atlas!
Add an animated MovieClip to stage!
Start / Stop animation on click!

26. Exercise 4
Bouncing Ball!

27. Exercise 5
Trigonometry!
Rotating arrow!

28. Exercise 6
Move the arrow with arrows!

29. Exercise 7
Trigonometry!
Rotate & move arrow with arrows!

30. Let us create a game!
WORKSHOP
& crossplatform deployment