Potential...
Youre potential is way above average, although i dont believe for a minute this engine took you two days i do believe it was a good engine but it had some flaws. First off instead of having the character MC move you had the map mc move. This seemed to cause a bit of a visual problem for me because i like to know that the character can move his position. Also the pedestrians should occasionaly have a bludgeon of some sort. (lol i just said bludgeon). Also i dont know what kind of programming you did for the bottom right corner of the map but everything seemed to be dragged to it. Also there were some serious issues with the characters health and you either dont know or forget to put a removeMovieClip code in the bullets cause after you play for about a minute the lag gets enourmous even at the low quality. These are all just things that would bring this to the top along with you. For the compliements the animation was beutiful except the weapon pickup MC and Damage + MC. The Pause option is always helpful but the character MC was in a higher layer than the menu which causes visual issues. The actual idea is beutiful and continue in your long line of work. If you ever need help from a fellow flash programmer/animator just ask or message me. quaghome@optonline.net