Mortal Kombat

Good Evening Flash Gurus,

Here’s my dilemma. I’m creating a mortal kombat style game where the movement, punch, kick, block, jump and power move controls are all scripted in the keyboard. I have two MCs that both have a good deal of clipEvent(keyDown) and clipEvent(keyUp) instances (well one of each, actually, but both notions hold a lot of code).

The problem I’m running into, is that when I’m controlling one of the MCs with the specific keystrokes that control him, I can’t control the other MC until all keys have been released.

How can I re-code these two MCs (hopefully not much modification will be needed) so that I can control each MC independently no matter who’s doing what to the keyboard.

I await your vast wisdom!