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Also forgot to mention you have a common timing glitch: Every time you quit and restart a level the timer counts faster. Likely you’re creating a new timer event handler each time, and they’re all invoking the your second counting function, so as you restart more times you get an accumulation of many timers running at once. Instead, you should simply make a single timer at the beginning of your program and then start and stop it as needed.

I wasn’t actually insulting your game or anything, I just think it’s bad for the whole premise of the game to be overcoming the controls – and that includes multi-million dollar retail games. Anybody who does it! It just seems to me that if the same levels were played with arrow keys, they’d be rather dull and uninspired as far as platformers go. The visual design is nice, but the obstacles and platform layout and so on, it would be a short, simple, and not terribly interesting platformer if navigating normally with the arrow keys. My point was merely that the challenge is a bit artificial, the whole premise being bogging down the player with a cumbersome control scheme. That said, I did play it a bit anyway, passing a few levels, and I’d really like to see you keep refining it.