You do not need any extra variables, private or otherwise. The Actor class already provides private 'int x' and 'int y' fields with public 'getX()' and getY()' methods to return the values of those private fields. All you need to do is get a reference to the gamer class object as, at minimum, an Actor object to execute those methods on. One way might be as follows: Please note that I do not refer to the gamer object as a gamer class. They are two totally distinct objects, each of a different Type -- one is a Class (extending Object); the other is a gamer (extending Actor, extending Object). The objects of type Class are the individual "pages" of code that describe objects using fields, constructors and methods. The gamer object is an object created via the gamer class constructor -- an instance of the class. Hence, we can see if an object is a gamer object using the following: It asks if 'actor', some Object object, was created by way of the gamer class or any class that extends the gamer class.