If you have any questions just ask. I've been making Flash games for a while now, although I had zero time to dedicate to it recently.


First a bit of constructive criticism:

- Framerate is horrible. First thing you should do is change the default 12fps to something else.
30 or 40 is good, I sometimes set 60 if it can handle it.

- Collision detection on the squares needs to be better.
I know this is hard, I've done a game like this myself a while back.
You can for example check what side of the box is hit and then bounce the ball in that direction.

- Make it bigger, screen is too small!
I usually make games at 640x480 (SVGA) for old time's sake.



Then some tips to improve:

- Which version of Actionscript are you using?
Don't even bother with AS1. AS2.0 is much better (can do classes), but I recommend using AS3 to be future proof (but is a bit harder, more like Java/C++).

- Put all the tiles into a single movieclip, then collision detect against it before doing any check for a specific tile.
This improves performance significantly.

- Even better (but more work), you could do the tiles a single MovieClip with BitmapData.
Then you remove the overhead of having multiple MC instances (this is less of an issue with AS3 and Flash9+, but should still be faster).

- I personally always use OOP when doing Flash games, but that's a matter of preference. So I have a "Ball" class, a "Paddle class", etc.
In my game, the Paddle was a child of Wall because the collision detection was the same, but Paddle was extended to be controlled by the mouse.


Well that's all I can think of for now... hope it helps.





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