Arrow Key Movement

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TUTORIAL ON ARROW KEY MOVEMENT(BASIC)
Alright, so first create your movie clip. We're gonna call ours "player_mc." Now, place an instance of it on the Stage and give it an instance name "player_mc." Next, click on that movie clip and in the Actions panel, type this in:

Code:: onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
this._y+=5;
}if(Key,isDown(Key.UP)){
this._y-=5;
}if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
this._x-=5;
}if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
this._x+=5;
}
}

That should give you a good foundation to build off of. It's a widely used method, however it is affected by frame rate. Good luck. Hopefully the next tutorial will be covering the hitTest() method.
Until next time,
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