# Side Scroller Help Desperately Needed!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/side-scroller-help-desperately-needed/105848
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 30, 2004, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/side-scroller-help-desperately-needed/105848 "2004-03-30T09:39:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@madbadrab](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/madbadrab)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2004, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/side-scroller-help-desperately-needed/105848/1 "2004-03-30T09:39:50Z")
Hi.
I’m making a side scroller game in flash mx 2004. my character is a movieclip containing movieclips of walking, standing and
jumping animations. I can make him walk left and right okay but when it comes to jumping i have this code:
onClipEvent (load) {
grav\_y = 0;
jumping = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
```
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && !jumping) {
grav_y = 15;
jumping = true;
}
if (jumping == true) {
grav_y -= 1;
if (grav_y<=-7.5) {
grav_y = -7.5;
}
this._y -= grav_y;
}
if (_root.ground.hitTest(this._x, this._y+45, true)) {
grav_y = 0;
jumping = false;
}
```
}
This works fine except that the character jumps while in the standing animation. where do i insert the gotoAndStop(“jump”); ??
Also i used the if(Key.isDown) function for when the character attacks but the animation only plays while the key is held down. how can i make it so he attacks when a key is tapped?
Thanx in advance
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/side-scroller-help-desperately-needed/105848/2 "2004-04-06T10:39:10Z")
The following should work. If it doesn’t it might be best to post the fla as I said. It would certainly help for your other question about attacking.
if (jumping == true) {
\_root.yourClipName.gotoAndStop(‘Jump’);
grav\_y -= 1;
if (grav\_y\<=-7.5) {
grav\_y = -7.5;
}