beginners guide book/website with the entire ABC?

[Quikrai]

Hello everybody,

I'm interested in learning AS2 or AS3 for game dev, with the aim of making the games playable on the iPhone, Android or PlayBook. I have just started following a tutorial for a shooting game. I really liked what I was able to put together and now want to learn all the basics. I was wondering if anyone know of a beginners guide book/website with the entire ABC that can get a complete beginner up and running with game dev using AS.

Btw, is AS a good option for game dev if my aim is to be able to develop games for mobile devices? All suggestions are welcomed:)

[jooniya]

ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University is a decent book to get started with. Learning ActionScript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser is a great book for general AS3. Both have accompanying websites to go along with the book. LAS3 doesn't get updated as frequently anymore.

To answer your second question, if you really want your games on the iPhone then Flash is certainly not the way to go. Off the top of my head, I don't know if Blackberry's support it.

[Quikrai]

Yeah the new BlackBerry PlayBook supports Flash, and the following: WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Mobile AIR, OpenGL, Java.

I'm assuming with the support for AIR it would be easier to create something in AS3n then transfer it over to the PlayBook. If someone with more knowledge on this can confirm it that would be awesome.