Well done for submitting! It's definitely better to get something out there (especially in this game since there's a free course) even if it's not fully finished. The bits you did get done work really well. Before getting enemies done, might I suggest looking into static traps as that's usually easier to get going with. Best of luck with your future games

Hey! I like that you mention what your intention were and what went wrong, I think all programmers has been there - using far too long on something and then the deadline just inches closer. I my self spent far too long on learning how shaders work to get a water effect on my game, which I had to scrap because it just wouldn't work :) Good thing is that your animations are good and smooth. Your level is good, I see its potential :) Keep it up!

Hello! I think you did a great job on hooking up the animations for running, jumping, and falling really well. I am also a Godot developer using 4.2 (about to go to 4.3). I think you should check out Brackey's new Godot tutorial on Youtube if you want to try again or to try fixing up the features you mentioned.  The video covers everything you wanted to add and I think it would really help.

In my top down game I used the Player's position to force the enemies (called Hero in code) to walk directly towards the Player and an Area2D node to detect if they reached the player to stop them from moving so that they can shoot. This is different than what the Brackey's video did, but it might give you an idea for the future.  I modified my code a bit to show the important bits. 

The part that says "if body is Player" works because the Player script starts with "class_name Player extends CharacterBody2D" so Godot can recognize it in other scripts for certain things. In this example, all of my enemies and the player are attached to a main scene called Map01, so I am able to get the map in the enemy script and the first child of the map which is the player. This is by far the clunkiest script you could use, but it works.

class_name Hero extends CharacterBody2D
@onready var map = get_tree().root.get_node("Map01")
@onready var player = $Player
var can_move = true
#physics for a CharacterBody2D
func _physics_process(delta):
    if can_move == true:
        var player_position = map.get_child(0).global_position
        move_direction = (player_position - global_position).normalized()      
    else:
        velocity = Vector2(0,0)
    
    move_and_slide()
    update_anim()
#Area2D node signals
func _on_body_entered(body):
    if body is Player:
        can_move = false
func _on_body_exited(body):
    if body is Player:
        can_move = true