Maybe something like this: Where the yellow squares are your actual icons; just fill with black areas to get the proper placement, as long as every icon has the same size in the end. For big displacements this could mean a huge image though. Another approach would be to handle it all with LVZ's. Kind of like in Hyperspace where they were showing the number of ammo packs; except you'd have to handle ALL icons. With subgame I wouldn't even bother trying, but it's pretty doable on ASSS. Main problem for that on subgame would be the initial greens given when you spawn, I don't think you could know which gun level the player has, for example, until he shoots. Unless these things are fixed and cannot be upgraded with greens in your zone.