can someone confirm this runs on their system?

[madscijr]

I tried it. I ran it in Linux Mint 21.2, QB64pe 3.10.0 and it compiled and ran but I had no luck getting any of the the players to move around, and the escape key would not function.

Thinking it may be a problem with Linux. I loaded it up in Win10 VM with QB64pe 3.10.0 and tried it, and it played just fine.

I tried it on my Ubuntu machine and I could not move the players around.

In regards to Linux, there seems to be an issue with keyboard handling during game play.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this?

Thanks for testing! 
It must be a problem with the _BUTTON command which is what it uses to read the keyboard.
If you want to isolate just that functionality, see the little test program I posted in my previous reply (regarding numlock). 
Thanks again!