Simple particle effect in AS3

I have created the following particle system by using some code from the book Learning Actionscript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser. I slightly modified the code so that the particles emit from the mouse position instead of the centre of the stage. A particle system is basically a way of animating many objects at the same time. The animated objects can be used to replicate smoke, fire, water, explosions and many more effects.

I previously wrote a post on the flint particles which is a free open source particle effect in Actionscript 3.0, if you’re interested in particles checkout this post.