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Hey look! I've broken ground in Flash development!

I wanted to learn Haxe NME, (a language very similar to ActionScript 3, the Flash programming language,) so I decided to port a game I made a few years ago as part of a tutorial on the C++ graphics library Allegro 5. I made a few changes to the game logic, (I added some acceleration to the player movement, as well as some trigonometry to keep you from moving faster on the diagonals than on the vertical or horizontal. Also, some changes were made to the scoring system.) as well as a few cosmetic additions, (the screen shaking, the red flash, the stars,) but beyond that most everything here should be credited to the guy who made that tutorial, because all of the numbers and calculations are the same even if it's written in another language.

A selection of the trials and tribulations encountered during the creation of this SWF:
- For the longest damn time I couldn't even get the ship to show up on the screen. I had to spend an entire day reading about the Flash rendering pipeline before any headway could be made.
- Another whole day (maybe two) was spent trying to get the player object to register key presses. Until I figured that out, it was impossible to move.
- There were more null reference errors than I can count regarding the removal of objects from the screen.
- Shifting from one game state to another (e.g. from the in-game screen to the game over screen) yielded a lot of interesting errors. I became very well acquainted with the Flash event system trying to figure them out.

So it took about a week and a lot of headaches, but I think I know enough Haxe to get by now. Maybe the next game will be a) my own idea and b) a little more presentable, yeah?

Also, incidentally, this is the first thing I've uploaded since dA rolled out the new submission form layout. Can't say I'm a huge fan of it, but I guess I'll adapt.

Description
Hey look! I've broken ground in Flash development!

I wanted to learn Haxe NME, (a language very similar to ActionScript 3, the Flash programming language,) so I decided to port a game I made a few years ago as part of a tutorial on the C++ graphics library Allegro 5. I made a few changes to the game logic, (I added some acceleration to the player movement, as well as some trigonometry to keep you from moving faster on the diagonals than on the vertical or horizontal. Also, some changes were made to the scoring system.) as well as a few cosmetic additions, (the screen shaking, the red flash, the stars,) but beyond that most everything here should be credited to the guy who made that tutorial, because all of the numbers and calculations are the same even if it's written in another language.

A selection of the trials and tribulations encountered during the creation of this SWF:
- For the longest damn time I couldn't even get the ship to show up on the screen. I had to spend an entire day reading about the Flash rendering pipeline before any headway could be made.
- Another whole day (maybe two) was spent trying to get the player object to register key presses. Until I figured that out, it was impossible to move.
- There were more null reference errors than I can count regarding the removal of objects from the screen.
- Shifting from one game state to another (e.g. from the in-game screen to the game over screen) yielded a lot of interesting errors. I became very well acquainted with the Flash event system trying to figure them out.

So it took about a week and a lot of headaches, but I think I know enough Haxe to get by now. Maybe the next game will be a) my own idea and b) a little more presentable, yeah?

Also, incidentally, this is the first thing I've uploaded since dA rolled out the new submission form layout. Can't say I'm a huge fan of it, but I guess I'll adapt.