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[RyanWorlds]

Hey everyone, I'm gettin my teeth sunk into my first game and I've already hit a bump. As I said above, I wanna make a game that has a top-down, Pacman style control mechanic to it. The player controls a bunny and eats various items in the map. I had some basic controls where if you push up, he goes up. Push left, he goes left. Pretty much exactly like Pacman. Then I decided that I didn't like the feel of it so I wanted to make it a little more complicated than that.

FIRST) I want the bunny to hop. I don't want him to just glide. I want him to hop with every step.

SECOND) I want him to not just go left or right when those directions but rather I want him to turn and then go forward when up is pushed (kinda like the original Resident Evil games but without the confusing camera angles).

Obviously I will add to it after I get these down but those are my first baby steps that I want to take to start this project. Can anyone point me in the right direction for tutorials or help with the programming? Thank you all so much!

[InfiniteStateMachine]

how are you currently developing the project? 

[RyanWorlds]

I'm just using Adobe Flash CC. I drew out my sprite and converted it to a movie clip. Like I said, this is my first time trying to make a game so it's definitely safe to say that I don't really know what I'm doing haha I'm posting what I have so far below and please keep in mind that I have been playing around with the code a lot so it looks a little weird.

Code:

import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.Event;

var rightKeyIsDown:Boolean = false;
var leftKeyIsDown:Boolean = false;
var upKeyIsDown:Boolean = false;
var downKeyIsDown:Boolean = false;

var turning:Number = 0;
var turningMax:Number = 8;

var step:Number = 0;
var fullStep:Number = 13;
var playerSpeed:Number = 26;


stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, pressAKey);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, releaseAKey);


// Move FORWARD and BACKWARD
function pressAKey(event:KeyboardEvent):void{
if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.UP){
upKeyIsDown = true;
}
if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN){
downKeyIsDown = true;
}
}

function releaseAKey(event:KeyboardEvent):void{
if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.UP)
{
upKeyIsDown = false;
step = 0;
}
if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN)
{
downKeyIsDown = false;
}
}


atomHop.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveThePlayer);


function moveThePlayer(event:Event):void{
if(rightKeyIsDown == true){
atomHop.x += playerSpeed;
}
if(leftKeyIsDown == true){
atomHop.x -= playerSpeed;
}
if(upKeyIsDown == true){
step += fullStep;
if (step > playerSpeed){
upKeyIsDown = false;
step = 0;
}
atomHop.y -= step;
}
if(downKeyIsDown == true){
atomHop.y += playerSpeed;
}
}