Hi there, thank you for your response! After hearing about the pitchfork, I gave the game another try.
I feel like I still had some jittering issues, but overall the game ran better than before! I think I was getting stuck mainly because I didn't know I could lay eggs! I managed to move the pitchfork and get to the second level but got a little stuck because I wasn't sure how the eggs worked. I think my brain is just empty today after work, but it took me a bit to understand that the eggs were used to blow up.
I was confused as to why the scene kept restarting, but found out I was blowing myself up!! Oops..
Once I got that down, it was smooth sailing and I made it to the boss fight and got it after one failed try!
All in all, I think its really impressive how much functionality you were able to achieve in such a short time, thank you for sharing!
P.S. I think it was really clever how you handled the cutscenes. In my game, I really struggled with text on screen, but have a book that had several sections of text appear one after another was a great solution!!