About the Author

Makzan is a game designer working in Macao and Hong Kong, China.

He started as a web designer and met Flash 4 in 2000. He won a bronze medal in WorldSkills for Web Designing and later became the expert of Macao in this competition.

He has interest in creating games and often explores different ways to implement his game ideas such as making Flash games on Wii, mobile games on iPhone, and social games on Facebook.

Since 2003, Makzan started making multiplayer Flash games with different server solutions. He tried most existing multiplayer game solutions until discovering SmartFoxServer.

I would like to thank the following groups of people for all their efforts. The book would not be possible without the help from the Editors, Reviewers, Proofreaders, and the Project Coordinators. I thank all the reviewers for providing very useful comments from which I have learnt a lot. I thank David, my Acquisition Editor, for inspiring me on the book's ideas. I thank Reshma, my Development Editor, for revising my chapters and helping me in writing them. I thank Ashwin, the Project Coordinator, for the great cooperation while delivering the chapters. I thank Rukhsana, the Technical Editor, for helping me on revising chapters. I thank Kelvin Fong for drawing the graphics of the code examples. I thank again all the people who have worked on this book. Thank you.