I'm not sure if this question is obvious, or if the answer can be found here or on the Wiki...but regardless, I can't seem to find it.

My main question is this...

How do you animate sprites?

It seems like it would be simple, and the Platform School tutorial makes it seem so. But I copy all the methods I saw from there into my project, and my sprites won't animate. They switch to different animations types (run, jump, fall, etc.) but they won't ANIMATE. My character just slides across the scene in the same frame.

I thought this would be one of the easiest parts but I just can't figure it out. I hate to be a bother and ask such a seemingly obvious question, but I'm stumped!

Hi, I'm Magnet Missile. As you might guess from my username, I'm a shameless Mega Man addict. I think I started gaming with the original Super Mario Bros. and eventually found Mega Man. I like lots of games, but platformers have always been special to me, and the Mega Man games (Classic, X, and Zero) have always stood out to me in various ways.

I've been working with RPG Maker XP for years now with no real results. I just keep running into problems (progress becomes tedious) and I start a new project. I like RPGs, but...I really want to try and make a platformer.

So...I heard about Construct over a year ago on the Stencyl forums. Someone made a topic comparing Construct to Stencyl, and I looked it up, but I wasn't in the mood to try it out. Replaying Mega Man Anniversary Collection a few days ago got me all excited, and I came here with the intentions of making a Mega Man fangame, something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'm...making progress, but I'm running into lots of problems. I have faith though, I can tell that Construct has a lot of potential.

I had an idea for a weird shooter game involving bulldogs and pizza, but I think I'll wait a while before I start that.

I'm looking forward to figuring things out, and maybe even finishing a game!