Did you cut around your sprites or use some magical key combo to make your area outside the black outline transparent? If there is a way to do this in Paint, please post it. Paint is so much simpler than the advanced programs.

Matt suggested gimp to me and it's good. It looks like a free version of illustrator, so even though I haven't figured out how to use things like a select that makes all background (white) space transparent, I know it's there. Also, there are cool paintbrush effects that I used for my house fire animation.

Great job Matt! Really fun to play. I looked at your code for squirrel to figure out how you changed speed after eating cherries. I see "speed=0", then after berries eaten "speed +=5" etc. Where is method for speed? I looked in mover, but only saw the usual. It would be great if you could add some comments to your code to help tyros like myself learn how to write great code like yours!