Gah! Thank you so much for the kind words it means a lot! 💖
I actually ended up starting over with the project and things seemed to be going well but ultimately ended with the same problem of not being able to get the knockback to work properly. (It was able to print knockback but nothing would actually happen...) And as much as I tried to research the error, I found that most of the time I couldn't understand the answers I came across, so I wholeheartedly agree that I need to gain some familiarity with the terminology going further.
As frustrating as it is to not being able to complete the game, I'm still so hungry to learn. I wanna make something! Although I am gonna take the weekend to rest and reset, lol.