I partially accomplished my goals this past week. I was able to make a background for the player to have a reference when they move around. I was also able to make a very basic movement system just to make sure that the player icon will be moving. In addition to that which wasn't part of the plan I made a very basic animation to spice up how the player icon looks when moving in a certain direction. I have struggled with one issue in particular.  The player icon refuses to appear in front of the background image so you can't see the player icon when it's moving unless the background image is hidden. I tried messing around with the sorting order and layers but it's not working with me still so hopefully I can fix that by next week. 

For the next week like I said I will be working on not only trying to fix that issue but I will also be working on making art for the heavenly bodies such as stars, planets, and black holes. I will also try to code how to make them have gravity and attract the player character towards them. Justas suspected the coding is proving challenging especially trying to incorporate the animations, it's something I haven't tried before.