Congrats on your first game jam! I'm terrible at platformers on a keyboard, so I didn't get very far. I gave it a good try though. I didn't notice any freezing when I didn't eat any apples though. Like at the start of the second level. That jump to the tiny platform on the side of the cliff was difficult for me, so I did that circuit over and over before I finally made that jump. It probably took me 2 minutes to make it, and there were no ill-effects from not having eaten an apple in a while.