[MEAMYOu]

I'm trying to create a game, in which a ball falls from the top of the screen to the bottom, and the player trys to catch the ball in a basket. However I have no clue how to make the ball duplicate itself. So i can have one ball fall at a time then maybe 2 at a time, then 3 at a time and so on. I also want these balls to fall at a random _x. I am currently using this code to move ball and give it a random _x.

The following Code is placed on the ball;

Actionscript:

onClipEvent (load) {
     _x = random(550);
 }

The Following code is placed on the first frame

Actionscript:

ball._y = ball._y+8;

i've tired

Actionscript:

j = j + 1
duplicateMovieClip(ball,ball + j, j);

but all that does is keep duplicating the movieclip and the new ones don't move
any help would be greatly appreciated.

it should be like the apple catch game at this site.
http://garyrosenzweig.com/books/book9.html