game help useful things to know tutorial1

moving your sprites around. 1. draw you sprite or character then highlight him and click f8, make him a movieclip and give him the instance name of...lets go with bob. 2.select your character and put this code into his action panel onClipEvent(enterframe) { // if you hit arrow key right character moves 5 pixels right if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) { this._x += 5 } // if you hit arrow key left the character moves left 5 pixels if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) { this._x -= 5 } // if you hit arrow key up the character moves up 5 pixels if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) { this._y -= 5 } //if you hit arrow key down the character moves down 5 pixels if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN) { this._y += 5 } } Ok i know that was very basic but in the next tutorial you will learn intermediate things like hitTest, attaching movies and in the advandced section you will learn 3D game making no more boring 2d.