OMG StickyKeys, I remember the old games that used shift for some vital function like picking up an object.

@withthelove maybe I should learn from you, I always rush out stuff too quickly. Yulpers looks pretty good though - that text placement thing can be an issue even in gamemaker, but probably not as bad as in your engine though.

@MayorOfGaming do you use a tile-based collision system?

Yeah I still have it, it's a very interesting game actually, even though it's a bit hard to figure out what you're supposed to be doing.

There used to be a windows build of This big wide world actually, because I played it. 

That's a snazzy pause screen, good thinking to make the controls configurable.

I would say the the keyboard scheme I prefer for platformers is arrows for movement and then A,S,D,F and so on for actions, with the rightmost of those being the jump button.  For FPS's I prefer WSAD and jumping with leftCtrl or leftShift. Space is also good for jumping in FPS's I think but not in any other genre imo.