I'm Building A Game
Hey,
I'm a beginning Flash/actionscript programmer and I'm trying to build a game. I'm stuck trying to code the collisions in my space invaders type game. Basically what I need is a way to check if two movieClips are intersecting(collision). Can anyone lead me in the right direction?
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----------------------------------------COMPLETE ACTION SCRIPT-----------------------
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
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