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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690362
Pages 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Developing Flash Virtual World 2. Installing the Servers 3. Getting Familiar with SmartFoxServer 4. Creating Map and Ground in Isometric View 5. Creating Avatars 6. Walking Around the World 7. Creating Buildings and Environments in the Virtual World 8. Creating an Inventory System 9. Communicating with Other Players 10. Interacting with NPC 11. Designing Quests 12. Social Community 13. Deploying and Maintaining Flash Virtual World

Extending the virtual world to other platforms


SmartFoxServer is a real time socket server that was designed for Flash originally. After years of improvement from the SmartFoxServer team, it has become a generic socket server that can be used on different platforms. They now provide support on Java, .Net, Objective-C, and JavaScript. It is possible to build up similar real-time virtual worlds in Google Android, iPhone, and iPad platform. We can download the APIs from SmartFoxServer's API Central web page (http://smartfoxserver.com/labs/API/).

Apple iOS

With Objective-C client API, we can extend the virtual world to Apple iOS platform, which does not support Flash. Apple iOS platform has a large user base and has the ability of playing the virtual world on this platform, meaning we can reach a lot more potential players and generate more revenue from it.

.Net and Unity

Unity (http://unity3d.com/) is a 3D game engine that is free for publishing web-based 3D games. It also comes with paid...

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