Decided two days ago that I'd put some serious effort into learning how to work with Flash, specifically in direction of towards making a game.

Spacebar to shoot, arrow keys to move; basic stuff.

This is pretty much 'baby-steps' when it comes to me making a Flash game. I used a tutorial to put this game together. If you want you can compare my "final" work with what the tutorial produced.

I'm going to estimate about 15 hours to put it together, or roughly two days.

I'm not a complete newbie when it comes to programming, I understand a lot of the logic involved; though as to anyone who's worked with any sort of programming language they can tell you how one misspelled thing can cause hours upon hours of debugging work. In my case it was a combination of that and a severe lack of knowledge of ActionScript (the guts of Flash more or less) that caused a project that I suspect could be put together in 2-3 hours take so long.

Still mission accomplished: A learned a lot of tricks I can apply to creating another game, though I still have a lot of learning to do.