Hey, I was just wondering. What's the language used to write most flash games these days?? I'm a college student and I'm pretty familiar with Java and a little C. Is it hard to just pick up game writing?
It depends wether you want to make games in 2D or 3D. If you start off simply and start off with battleships or something similar and build from there you'll find its easy. Don't attempt 3D or multi-player until you can make a decent 2D single-player RPG is my rule of thumb as well-made RPGs may not definitively be the hardest to make but they are certainly the largest and tests your coding style. What course are you taking at college?
Could anyone help me out here and elaborate further?
Why yes.
OOP is programming that involves different objects that (in AS3) are subclasses of existing classes. OOP is like piecing everything together with different parts, as oppose to just one section of code that does everything.
OOP is where we 'objects.' Objects are like containers that can hold properties and more containers, perform functions, etc. This gives us a structure very similar to how we might organize the things around us and is such that makes a very ideal way to simulate and structure games with.
Actually, i think we're both right. In the sense that Java is Object oriented, and AS is also. But when i saw you said it's almost exactly like Java, i thought you mean syntax-wise.
Because i think ActionScript syntax was originally modeled after JavaScript syntax. But i haven't spent any time in Java, so, i suppose you're also right.
KGuare, you're right about the syntax being modeled after Javascript. Or more precisely, ECMAScript was a standardized scripting language created from Javascript, and then the ECMAScript standard was used to create ActionScript 2 and 3.
