Thanks for pointing out what I should have noticed. I used to think I was brilliant. I could program computers to do anything in machine language. My idea of a vacation is still to get a hotel room for a week and take a laptop and some computer manuals. I can't believe how incomprehensible Gamestudio has become. I wish I was a gifted 24 year old C programmer hopped up on energy drinks, then maybe I could do this. I'm good at constructing amazing looking levels, and no good at writing walk routines. If I can just get the walking right, then it will only be one problem at a time adding interactions between the player and objects. Seriously, if anyone knows of the complete code for a simple game example with a working walk routine that runs in A8, please direct me to it. Thank you for your replies. I'll go back and fix the brackets and try this player code again.