Terminology & Games

I thought the reading from 'Macromedia Flash MX Game Design...' was a good introductory reading for this class. Although some of the information may have been familiar from playing games ourselves, some of it was new also. It was nice to have a list of general terms to read and refer to; for example I keep hearing about Algorithms, but couldn't really tell you what they were until now. The only thing about the reading is that I believe it deals with an older version of Flash, so maybe the information has changed since then and needs to be updated. Looking at some games, you can see what is reflected in the reading. A lot of Flash games will deal with 2D gaming, from a 'side' view. There are thousands of games online that are easily accessible to the public, I found a lot of games that I have never heard of before, but also came across familiar ones from last week's class such as 'Super Crazy Guitarman Maniac Deluxe 2'.