After installing SDL and using it as the platform, the game runs flawlessly on Debian Linux. That makes a lot of sense now, that X11 was treating the keystrokes akin to a text editor. Thank you so much for your help, I appreciate it a lot.

Also thank you hpg678 for the article, it's really interesting. I had never thought of the concept of time-based movement... definitely something I'll try to implement.

Thank you for trying out my code.

I added a background but I still experienced the same lag.. Since it worked for HitCoder I'm thinking maybe I can get it to work by running the code on a Windows installation of Enigma.

Hi there,

I'm working on simple object that responds to WASD input by moving. The only issue I have is that after a couple seconds of holding down a key, the movement and keystrokes start to lag - I've included a GIF to show what I mean. I've tried both code and blocks, and both of them yield the same output.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks

Creation code:

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left_speed = 0
right_speed = 0
up_speed = 0
down_speed = 0


Step code:

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if keyboard_check(ord('W')) {
up_speed = 5
}
else {
up_speed = 0
}

if keyboard_check(ord('A')) {
left_speed = 5
}
else {
left_speed = 0
}

if keyboard_check(ord('S')) {
down_speed = 5
}
else {
down_speed = 0
}

if keyboard_check(ord('D')) {
right_speed = 5
}
else {
right_speed = 0
}

x -= left_speed
x += right_speed
y += down_speed
y -= up_speed