For those of you new to Flash programming – or any kind of programming – you might not have thought about object oriented programming beyond just trying to get the stupid stuff to compile. When people think about OOP it drudges up ideas of classes, inheritance, methods, abstract members, and a bunch of other stuff that sounds great but how do we apply this to our great game idea? When you’re learning object oriented programming the most important thing you can take away is how to use object patterns to quickly prototype your ideas. More >