Well, I'm making a "Space Invaders" style game, and I just coded the aliens part as a grid of labels I drew with some code as an array. The way it works is that the labels are made transparent, like they're pixels. It worked okay, so I decided to add a background image to the form. No for some reason, I can't see anything when I run the program I think the problem is that when the labels are drawn they go behind the image or something. Now I think I'd rather remove the background image, unless someone can tell me how to get it to work with the background image.... which would be preferable..... and without the use of API, or else I'm gonna have to remove it. The problem is that once you put a freakin image on a form, VB doesn't allow you to remove it unless you're replacing it with another image. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!