Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

This is a step-by-step, hands-on guide that is filled with examples and screenshots of building a multiplayer virtual world. The virtual world is built gradually; each chapter in the book sequentially develops the virtual world. The author explains the fundamentals with examples from existing virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Mole, Dofus, and World of Warcraft. If you are a Flash or an ActionScript developer who wants to build powerful and immersive multiplayer games, this book is for you. This book assumes that you have some experience with ActionScript 3.0.

Makzan

Makzan is a game designer working in Macao and Hong Kong, China.

He started as a web designer and met Flash 4 in 2000. He won a bronze medal in WorldSkills for Web Designing and later became the expert of Macao in this competition.

He has interest in creating games and often explores different ways to implement his game ideas such as making Flash games on Wii, mobile games on iPhone, and social games on Facebook.

Since 2003, Makzan started making multiplayer Flash games with different server solutions. He tried most existing multiplayer game solutions until discovering SmartFoxServer.