Thank you so much! I just had time to look at the reviews now, and seeing so many people fall victim to this dying problem makes me feel like such a dingus ;)
I agree that the controls are not the best (they are outright BAD ahhaha), I really tried tweaking some of the variables I set in my code but couldn't get it to feel right and so I thought I would work on other stuff for the game before going back but I never did...