Hi guys, Thought this would be a bit of a n00b question. I'm making a game on a Blackberry smartphone (Java). So far I have a sprite and a background. The sprite can be moved around (4 directions) using specified keys on the keypad (by adding/subtracting to the pixel coordinates of the current sprite location on refresh). What I was wondering is how I can make the character move 'naturally' or 'smoothly' from one coordinate to another. For example, I'm adding 2 to the y-coord int. But the character jumps to the next coordinate. So the movement is 'blocky' or 'jittery'. What can I do to combat this so the sprite moves smoothly like Mario or Link? Cheers in advance :)

Generally you'll do this by specifying positions and movements using either floating or fixed point numbers. These allow you to specify sub-pixel units, so for example, you can add 0.2 to the y-coord each frame, so every 5 frames it will move one pixel. I'm not familiar with the Blackberry hardware but you might find fixed point is much faster if it doesn't have floating point hardware.