Ok so today was fairly productive. I managed to start my game and it was turning out almost exactly like my speed game hard mode entry, so i started over from scratch. Managed to get the main menu, credits screen and getting the game to go back to the main menu once all lives are lost. Need to actually work on creating a player character(s) making the collectables, enemies, level layouts etc. hope i can make the dead line. today is probably the day i could work the most before the deadline.