[Robotics] pose mode and game engine

[chsmith at xmission.com]

I am just learning blender with 2.55 and I have been trying to get the  
armature of the robot to use it's parent child relation for motion in  
the game engine.  I am trying to do this by making a parent object of  
the armature rig and then using the motion in the game engine to allow  
me to assign keyboard movement to the parent and have the armature  
follow.  I have not been able to get it to work. So I am thinking that  
the armature will only work in the pose and object mode and not in the  
game engine.  Unless I create a loop in the pose mode and just call  
that from the game engine.  Can any one tell me if I am going down the  
right path or if there is a better way.  I see the joy stick but do  
not have one yet.  So have been trying to move the hand of the robot  
with the keyboard but have not had success with the armature.

Please help.

Chuck Smith