A guide to building Flash-based games for Nintendo Wii that provides an overview of the history of games, animation, and the console and covers Adobe Flash, drawing and game design fundamentals, animation principles, character, story, building scenes and worlds, sound, players, objectives, programming a short game, WiiCade production, and other related topics.

"User level: Beginner - Intermediate" -- Cover p. [4]. Included CD-ROM contains: Any Audio Converter, SourceForge's Audacity, the WiiCade API, and example files for all the exercises in the book. Includes index.