I got some work done, this Friday, and I am proud! My platformer is shaping out nicely. I am learning the use of INIs with the help from some great people (shawn & nivram). With that in mind, I got saving to work!!
Saving: That's right, you can save your progress. Let's say your on level three, you must finish the level to save it. Of course, it shouldn't be a great loss if you don't save it, since most levels are medium to short in length. Anyways, you complete level 3, Level 3 will now open for level select to play again. I will most likely make a clone for re-peat levels that won't have the function to save "your current level". For example, let's say you're on level 4. Minutes later, you beat it. Then go to level selection and beat level 3. Well, you're current level would still be 4 since you're on level selection. I don't know, if you got it.
PS - The file will be encrypted so there is no cheating. 
Loading: This just reads the current level string and loads it. Once you finish the game the string will ask if you want to reset the game (get all levels, etc) or just keep playing...
Playing for what?!?: I'm a fan of useless but fun to look at statistics. I will make statistics on certain things such as "Number of times x monster beaten" or "Number of times Jumped" or maybe even "Total Gold obtained". Yeah, I'll probably add a statistics page in the main menu.
Like I said, I intend to make the last [two] levels insanely hard. Why!? Because then it will be too easy to beat it. It will be almost like AddictingGame's 'World's hardest game' but a little bit more harder.
GUI Navigation: For the GUI navigation, all you need is a keyboard. No mouse is needed for this game! You will be able to select choices by pressing the UP and DOWN arrow keys and selecting your selected choice by pressing SHIFT (jump). This is so people with laptops can play as well!
Pause screen failure: I tried hard to make a pause screen with cool features like "Decrease/Increse volume" or settings. But really, this game is simple, plus the music will be enjoyable and to be honest, the only setting this game will have is Fullscreen/Windowed.
Here is a picture of the latest current start up menu screen. What do you think? (Ignore the edit boxes, I was testing with the save feature!)
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