Building Games in Flash5 Part1: Player Movement and Fire - Page 2

OK, lets get going.

Open up Flash 5, set the background colour of the movie to black and on Layer one draw a spaceship. Select the spaceship, a choose Insert and Convert to Symbol (or F8) and make your spaceship a movie clip.

Select this spaceship movie clip and in the Instance panel set the movie clips name to spaceship.

If you don't want to draw a spaceship you can use the fla in the download with this first step already done for you.