>hehe
>
>One idea I had was to create an image for each state, then
>combine them all into a map.
>
>The question is, how?

I didn't play around with that stuff, There should be several standard approaches how to do that. I am sure I have seen a book "Learn How to Program Games in VB in 21 day" :)

You still can get the mouse coordinates the same way as in VFP :)

Private Sub Image1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
*
End Sub