1. Place your original movie clip inside another movie clip, and use motion tweens to animate cyclical side-to-side bouncing. Try to use a multiple of the number of frames that the initial movie clip uses; for instance, my squishies bounce over a twenty-frame cycle—ten frames up, ten frames back down again, so for them to move one increment to the side, I need to have a motion tween stretching twenty frames. Another vertical bounce, another twenty-frame horizontal slide.
2. Pepper the playfield with instances dragged from your library; scale them down for perspective, and use the Color options for symbols to adjust the hue of each instance.
3. Drag a few extra bushes around for obstacles. Might as well give the little blobs something to hide behind while you’re trying to shoot at them.
4. Don’t forget a stop on this frame too.
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Now to set up the playfield; to do this, you’ll need to add extra motion to the little bouncy…target thingies. (I have no idea what to call those things. Seriously. For some reason the word “oppi” pops into mind because of the sound they make, and also because they make me think of an uber-cute music video by a Korean pop band that I used to love named OPPA. But I think I’ll just keep calling them squishies.) It’s no fun trying to hit them if they’re just bouncing up and down, so make them move from side to side, too.
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