How do I use the bullet movement for the player?

Or, if that's not possible, how do I create a player-character that is moved with arrow keys, that doesn't only move on 8 directions statically, but rather slides around as if it were on ice? Feel free to ask me questions if you need clarification on anything.

You could use bullet for the player.

For example,

on left key down { set angle of motion to 180}

on right key down { set angle of motion to 0 } and so on..

keep in mind you would have to have events for the on release as well that would stop the bullet movement

You could use bullet for the player.

For example,

> on left key down { set angle of motion to 180}

> on right key down { set angle of motion to 0 } and so on..

keep in mind you would have to have events for the on release as well that would stop the bullet movement

Firstly, nice pfp, secondly, that's what I tried first, but it was clunky and didn't move very smoothly. Also, it doesn't really work slippery-ly. I have tried working with momentum stuff but none of that really seemed to work.

Have you tried 8 direction with a very low deceleration?

Have you tried 8 direction with a very low deceleration?

I will, I think that's literally the only way to do this, which is a bummer, but whatever. Thank you though for helping!

It's literally not the only way, bullet will work fine. You'll just have to keep track of and handle acceleration, deceleration, and adding vectors yourself, which is what the 8 direction behavior already does for you.

Iirc there was a built in asteroids example, moving in space is similar to moving on ice.