How to read an image or sprites in mfile?

I want to make a game by using images and sprites. But I dont know many functions to make use of them. Can anyone state any of the Matlab functions?

[Star Strider]

What is a ‘sprite’ in the context of what you want to do?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Perhaps you can look at how this very popular File Exchange submission does it: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/45795-flappy-bird-for-matlab