And about the bug, I found a post on a forum that it is a common problem for some keyboards to not register the spacebar simultaneously with the up and left arrows. So I added A, W, D as an alternative. On my keyboard using the numeric keypad arrow keys works with no bugs, but the non-numeric arrow keys have that bug.

To fix this problem I’m going to switch out the spacebar with the Z key. Z, X and C could all server as “fire” buttons for different types of ammo eventually. I believe those keys with the arrow key do not exhibit this strange behavior in Actionscript.

I think it’s a little early to give any in-depth feedback, but like I said it’s coming along great. The one bug I did find was that sometimes I couldn’t get it to accelerate, turn, and fire all at once — but sometimes I could. Weird!

I’ll let you know once I add myself to Twitter – are there any GameDev feeds you’d recommend?

And I’d love to hear your feedback now – before we say Space ROX is ready to be published. We’re doing Agile development cycles so getting feedback while the game is in process is ideal!

Nice to meet you too. Thank you for the link, and the kind words. I don’t have a links page on my site, but I have added you to my “Friend Search”: the idea is, anyone searching my site will also get results from a select number of other sites that I think they’ll enjoy. Not sure how useful that is, but it’s worth experimenting.

Are you on Twitter, by the way? I just joined up a week or so ago, and I’m trying to expand my list of gamedev contacts.

Let me know if you would like some feedback when (if) you put it on FGL

Great to meet you Michael. I hope you don’t mind, but I added you to my links page. You’ve got some great stuff on your blog. And it would be great to see more of your stuff when it comes out.

I’ll definitely look into FlashGameLicense once we’ve polished it enough.