Jobe Makar
Bio
Jobe Makar is president, co-founder, and lead game programmer of Electrotank, a Flash game development company.
His work on Electrotank games such as Mini Golf, Electro Air Hockey, and Rikomin have earned international awards and have been sited in dozens of publications. Some of Electrotank?s clients include Mattel, Comedy Central, and MTV.
Jobe is the best-selling author of several books including Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Advanced Training from the Source, and Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Design Demystified.
Session
Creating Multiplayer Flash Games
Multiplayer games have been possible in Flash since version 4. They are among the most addictive and popular games on the web, yet so few know how to approach creating one.
Jobe Makar, creator of over 50 multiplayer games, will discuss the fundamentals of multiplayer game programming.
In addition to showing many real-world examples Jobe will dissect one complete game. The source code to several multiplayer games-both turn-based and real-time, will be made available for download.