No, the high score isn't connected to anything. I just know that the leaderboard is a key part of any good arcade game and thought it would encourage folks to try to top their previous score, but it only works in one sitting. I appreciate the comment about the sound effects. I started to put those in and could not get my brain to function at 5 in the morning to figure out what I was doing wrong. Since I primarily code with no sound in my games, I tend to leave that to the last minute so I am consistently making silent games. (Wonder if that might be its own genre; I'll have to look into that cause I definitely lean that style.) Thank you for trying my game.