Graphics help for life simulation program

I want to create 3 or more creatures and i want to plot there movements on a tiny 2d world.
I think i would do this by creating a underlying grid, and store the x,y coordinates of each creature.
How could I make my form full screen, and generate a flat one color world where i could display some type of picture for each of the creartures?
This is not extremly important for my program but it would be an added + if i could do it. Im trying to make a simple life simulation on the computer.

you mean somthing like that creatures game but in 2d and run from VB?

well you need a method called tiling to do the map and you would use blitting for the creatures.

learn about tiling from lucky's vb game site (cant remember address)!

http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/

Hey thanks for the site, its really cool, helped me out on a coulpe of other things too!