I'm afraid it still doesn't work :/ It now continually plays the walking animation and plays the X animation and then sticks.

Your job should be done, but it isn't xD In theory this should work...but it doesn't :/ This is my new code.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Omen6/problem2.jpg

Once more, it begins, but then hangs after the first frame.

Can anyone elaborate on that? I understand it but don't know how to bypass it. I had an idea of triggering a timer on pressing X as well and then having a sort of 'while the timer's going, play keep the animation going' type event, but as far as I know, that's not any sort of in-construct event command xD

I've got my 'walking' animations all sorted and groovy and I've set it so that when the sprite isn't moving it changes to the appropriate stationary position that it's facing but I've come across trouble with using any other animation. What I want is for my ninja to animate a seperate animation when pressing X, but because of the whole default stationary programming, it's not playing. Can anyone help me find a way around this problem? Here's a screenshot of the events. F.Y.I. that's the only programming in the game thus far.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Omen6/problem.jpg

I'm messing around with a private variable now. What do you mean by the add action? Sounds promising xD

I've noticed I can't use ++1 to increment things in Construct. How would I go about doing this? What I want is for the animation to be speeded up the faster my sprite moves for a sense of realism. Any help is appreciated.