Play My Game!! (So far)

NOTE: I have moved the flash movie to the bottom of the post so it doesn't overlap the sidebar

I know what you're thinking..."That's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle isn't it?"
The reason for this is that I am focusing on the code and redoing the graphics will be very time consuming and pointless if I can retrieve them from my broken laptop. As the amount of frames of this game sprite match the amount of frames I want for my character it is perfect for mapping out the code and getting an idea of how it will run. I have spent hours and hours working on the code over the past few days. I found a useful tutorial at:

http://www.mrsunstudios.com/2008/08/tutorial-create-a-platform-game-in-as3/

That came in handy for getting the gravity working right. The majority of my time has been spent getting the animations right. It seems like a simple task getting the character to move, however I had various problems. For example, As the character animation function was set to recall on every frame, the character would never move past the first frame. I solved this (eventually) by making a few variables;

var standFrame:uint = 1;
var walkFrame:uint = 13;
var jumpFrame:uint = 24;
(these set the initial frame of each type of animation)

var standFrameStart:uint = 1;
var walkFrameStart:uint = 13;
var jumpFrameStart:uint = 24;
(these set the definite start frame of each type of animation)

var standFrameEnd:uint = 13;
var walkFrameEnd:uint = 24;
var jumpFrameEnd:uint = 31;
(these set the definite end frame of each animation

Then what I had to do was create another function that was recalled on each frame to calculate what the frame should be and counteract the 1 i was having problems with, here's a bit of it:

mcDevil.addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME, frameProgression);
function frameProgression(event:Event):void{
if (standFrame <= standFrameEnd && standWalkJump == 1){
standFrame ++ ;
}
if (standFrame >= standFrameEnd && standWalkJump == 1){
standFrame = standFrameStart;
}

Then instead of having the animation go repeatedly to frame 1 for example, i linked it to the current frame variable because it added 1 to the frame value every frame then went back to the start when it reached the end. I know it sounds complicated but thats because it is. I spent a while getting it right!! I also had to set up a few conditional commands to make it jump to the right loop. I did this by creating an variable called standWalkJump with a value of either: 1(stand), 2(walk), 3(jump).
Then I made a few conditions, so "if the right key is pressed and the character isn't jumping then standWalkJump = 1(stand" this is the code for that:

if (rightKeyIsDown && mainJumping == false){
standWalkJump = 2;
jumpFrame = jumpFrameStart;
standFrame = standFrameStart;
}



I know at the moment there isn't much of a game as such, but I thought I would show my progress, as I feel that I have reached a massive milestone. I am also getting much better at flash and really starting to get to grips with how things work.

NEXT: I am going to try scan in my sketches later on and show the progression from paper to 2D image to 3D image. I might even start sketching out my jumping animation as it would be nice to see him move again!