Take a dive deep into the techniques required to build the best games. Building games is fun, but building them well takes skill and experience. Ben Garney, core Flash architect at Push Button Engine and one of the most well-known names in the Adobe Flash gaming industry, will put some powerful tools into your game development toolkit: finite state machines, numerical simulation, components, data-driven definitions, and more. Build better, more interesting games faster and with less risk.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn which technologies make up the Adobe Flash Platform.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about viewports and how they relate to the implementation of the Spark Scroller component to add scrollbars to your application.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how Spark lays out components using the layout classes and how these layout classes can be applied to the Spark container classes, to give you fine control over your application display.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn how to work with the Network Monitor to view a data request and the returned data and how to bind the return data to UI components in a display.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about data binding, which is prerequisite knowledge if you want to learn how to request data from an XML file and display it in the UI components.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about various techniques for changing the look-and-feel of your application, including using CSS and Spark skins.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn how to lay out your application using Design mode and the pre-built Flex components, including the video playback components.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about the UI components available in the Spark and MX libraries and the architectural difference between them.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about the MXML application code and some Flex framework namespaces and the classes that are mapped to these libraries.