DAY ONE:
I tried to get the dash working, to minor success. It's a little more like a teleport right now. There's a timer that measures double-clicks left and right, so you can tap-tap in either direction, but at the moment the little guy just like, poof APPEARS where I'd prefer him to dash toward. At least he's pointed in the right direction? Now that I've tried to work this out on my own I'm going to watch some dash tutorials and see what I wasn't compensating for.