Abstract: An interactive game programmed according to game rules including at least some game rules for mapping analog input movement to character actions for a character controlled by a player, the interactive game including program code to effect game state changes corresponding to moves made by a character controlled by the user, database or tables of operations wherein an operation represents a series of actions taken by a character in response to a particular user input using the analog input control, program code for processing the particular user input from the analog input control including representing input movement as a sequence of one or more sector visits, comparing the particular sector visit sequence with the database of operations to find matching character actions for the particular sector visit sequence or defined variation thereof, program code for effecting, where a match or defined variation thereof is found in the database of operations, the operations in sequence according to an associated series