Not all new.

One of the small realizations about coding is that it isn't always about new stuff.  Sometimes it's a process of going over the old and updating.  Sections of code can be rewritten to make it more "insert appropriate description", or just better.
That's part of what ive been doing for the last couple cdays.  Fixing up code, removing bits i dont need, trying to make something a little more error proof.  I'm at a point now where i can start adding more functionaliity.

See the little black square there.  That's the 'player'.  I know completely uninspiring as a player character, but it's a start.  The revision of the code at the moment is that using the direction keys will move the player and not the map, unless the player is near to the edge of the map.

Well that's the plan anyway.