New to game Dev book suggestions please!

[doob31]

Can anyone here suggest a good book for me to learn how to program games via flash. I would really like something that is OOP oriented as well, no code on timeline. I do have some in depth knowledge of flash, just not in developing games. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Dauntless]

You will almost never ever have no code on your timeline....

Actually, there are no good Game Dev AS 2.0 books. The best gamebook there is, is: Flash MX 2004 Game Design Demystified. Jobe claims to use as 2.0 but he just adds datatypes... No classes what so ever! (And evrything is stored in object, wich I find verry clumsy, but it's the idea behind the code that's important).

The best AS 2.0 book is Essential ActionScript 2.0 by Collin Moock.

If you read those two, you will be able to build full AS 2.0 games :).