You should keep your age to yourself imo, people are judgemental assholes when it comes to things such as Age, Color, Gender just as much as Java experience, even when they don’t realise they are doing it.
When someone knows a characteristic or skill level of a person, they tend to keep it at the back of their mind when interacting with them. In most cases this is ok, others not ok.
Gibbo is correct in my opinion. I also believe that no matter your age, gender, skin tone etc… you can be a good programmer. Some 10 year olds are better than some 18 year old programmers, its not a matter of age, its a matter of knowledge absorption and the skill of being able to translate thoughts into working code. Using your age as an excuse for anything is generally looked down upon, and in my opinion its annoying. I don’t care how old you are, if you do something then you are accountable for your actions, even good actions.
Now, don’t think I’m trying to get on your case. Swords here… I don’t know why he went on that rant at you.
Alpha 1.0.0… 3 months after planned… well I kind of took a break for a while 
But t is finally here, the graphics still are terrible but I will fix them soon.
Added:
5 Levels
FlameHops (New enemies)
Gold Chunks
End of Game
Known Bugs:
You get stuck on corner if landing on it
A small jolt of screen when landing from far distance
Health can go over with Health Boosters
Shooting not working in Level 3
Ahh, I see they should be working now and some of them are not really bugs and I have easy solutions for them so a new update should be coming soon!
Looking good OP! Props to you for coming back and continuing, it can be hard to do that!
I like it so far, good job on keeping this project going.
It would be super cool if you had a nice additive blending particle system, I think it would make the game a lot more immersive (if that’s even a word…) 
Great progress. Im glad you made it so that you can continue a level if you die… on the earlier version that just made me quit, but now there is enough incentive to keep playing through to the end. if you could iron out that corner collision bug it would make a big difference cos thats probably the most visible issue now. also, it doesnt seem that you can quite jump 2 blocks high, even though you have to in several places… you just have to get yourself stuck in the corner and mash the keys until you glitch high enough to get up lol.
just got to the end without dieing and got 33 gold. it seems on level 2 there is an unavoidable gas cloud. and level 2 and 3 both have a few items which are unreachable. i dont know what happened to the boss just now, but i fired a few shots while walking to the right and he must have died before coming onto the screen cos i jumped to the exit room without seeing him.