Instead of making a multiplayer game, take one step at a time and learn the basics behind networking, then do something smaller like a one-to-one chat program.

so, as you can see, we are working hard on this game, and hope to get started soon, and any help or advice, ANY at all, would be gladly welcomed,

Do you guys have any programming experience? A lot of it? How about networking? Software engineering? Patience? Dedication? Funds?

95.

Only because it's behind Cintiqs.

You know, like an autocomplete that actually works, or tiny '+' buttons that would expand/hide a code block, or a parenthesis/curly/bracket pairing highlighter, etc..

I was aiming forwards to being able to simultaneously fire all weapons, as in fire them all at once. For trigger happy people. :) With switching that only meant you can just use one subweapon at a time.

Thanks for the input, looks like I'll go with WASD, which brings the problem of having to cut down my list of subweapons to 4 at max, since keys 1-4 are dedicated keys to firing those weapons (so you can fire them simultaneously). I'd put in the arrow keys too, but I don't think everyone has keyboards which have Delete, End and Page Down sticking right next to the arrow keys. :S

I'm currently making some sort of horizontal SHMUP game (shoot em up, you know where you pilot a plane/ship and shoot enemies). You aim with the mouse and have keys 1-6 for subweapons. Wondering which you'd prefer?

1. Drunken control
- Hold space to elevate ship, release to drop, exactly like Fly The Copter.

2. Forward control
- Aim at direction with mouse, hold space to go forward there.

3. Standard control
- WASD movement.
- Biggest con: lots more control keys used compared to previous ones, kinda worried it might make the game too complicated for the player. But in the meantime, it's the most orthodox control scheme.

Input is appreciated.

There She Is!! final step, by SamBakZa Type: Movie Rating: Everyone

Got 9.9/10 from reviews, lol.

this.onEnterFrame = function(0{
//your code here
}

onClipEvent() is only intended for coding on movieclips.

Did you type the code on the timeline?

Something like this:

var myArray:Array = new Array("box", "circle");
_root.attachMovie(myArray[0], "lol", _root.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:100, y:100});

You're basically just storing the the linkage names of your MCs here.

if (this.Health=this.Maxhealth) {

"==" Compares two values
"=" Assigns a value

How would I make an Anime out of a flash?

Just... put a lot of effort in drawing? Anime lining style is pretty simple and easy, because they're mostly basic straights and curves, plus it's a "limited animation", so Line Tool (key N) would be your main weapon unless you had a tablet. I've drawn L using only Flash, but I'm not interested at all in anything Zelda, but that should give you the idea that you can draw things in Flash that can look like anime you see on TV.

Shameless self-praise. Someone flame me. >:D

And that came... from the Newgrounds tutorials page.

So it shouldn't be hardcore, right?

You can adjust the quality settings.

File > Publish Settings > Flash tab > JPEG Quality slider. It defaults at 80.

What do you mean by "hardcore"?

If you mean you have another MC inside the frame 2 of your MC, then you have to tell that MC to play as well. Something like this.anotherMC.play().

But if you mean you have an animation starting at frame 2, but do not have any other MC inside, you need this.gotoAndPlay(2), not this.gotoAndStop(2).

Huh... recursion? Can you post your whole code?

if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
     var newDepth:Number = _root.getNextHighestDepth();
     _root.attachMovie("enemy","e"+newDepth, newDepth, {_y:200, _x:100});
}

$0.

Hoping to fix that by January. :O

Not that impressed with the box falling particle thing, pretty quick and easy to achieve the same thing.

The thing that was impressive about the previous link is the city lighting up thing, but apart from that...

Try tracing kills, and put a trace function to trace anything inside to see if the condition is actually met.

Yes, that was why I couldn't bother typing a longer explanation, since I could be explaining something that he didn't want. >.>

on(release){
   _root.attachMovie("movieclip", "mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:100, _y:100});
}

100 bucks this won't work for him, even though it's perfectly okay.

I like the first symbol.
I can't appreciate the triangle one, dunno.
The eye one was just terrible. Needs redrawing.
The yinyang could do some cleaning (whites are exposed on the yinyang on the black side).

I guess you can manually take each frame and Trace Bitmap it. >____> But seeing as how much processing a single bitmap needs to be converted into a decent looking vector, and how much space it consumes anyway... kinda not practical.

What's "load ermc"?

Just... take a picture of a gradiented wave then tween it by playing around with the freeform tool (key Q)? Tried it for a few seconds, not sure if it's convincing enough. There isn't a way to curve a gradient in Flash anyway, so you'd have to do that with a separate image editor then import it.

And it's called the XMB theme (Xross Media Bar).

Well, try this:

for (var i = 0; i<=1; i++) {
// ...
enemy.onEnterFrame = function() { ... }
}

Wouldn't the instance name "enemy" be lost after the for() loop terminates, so you can't really add a function to "enemy" after the for loop? Not to mention your other vars like xvel. You could refer to "dEnemy"+i, I think, like _root["dEnemy"+i].onEnterFrame = function(){}.

Not sure on this since I've never tried creating an empty movie clip. >_>