Sorry guys due to multiple delays and an increasingly busy schedule I'm not able to make the deadline in time. Even though the contest is over I've already put so much work into Plants vs. Zombies that there is no reason to cancel it. If my schedule is light this weekend then hopefully I'll be able to get a release out. btw one good thing came out of all of this. Because I wanted to make the techniques I used in PvZ available to everyone else I've spent more time than I should have on creating libraries. If my testing goes well in about 2 hours I'll try to release my finished getkey library which contains just about every keyboard related function you could ask for including unlimited multi key testing, wait for key press, blocking, enable/disable menu key and so on.

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Sorry to hear, I would've voted for you at least you have future projects of a higher scale inbound

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Seems you're also inbound to be laid too

Thanks for the support guys. I just wanted to check in now that I've finished my GetKey libraries which surprisingly ended up at being 265 lines of code One thing to note though is that they aren't tested yet at all so it may be another night before I get them out. I have maybe a 5% chance of everything working on my first compilation due to the pointer and type casting complexity I used. I do hope many people choose to use these because they really simplify coding especially if you work a lot with multiple key presses. For example a line of code to test if the user is pressing the up and left arrow simultaneously would read,
if Multi_Is_Key( MULTI_MENU_OFF, KEY_UP | KEY_LEFT)

The most obvious part you will notice is that the key constants are bit wise or'd with each other to create the value to be tested for. It is even possible to or every single key together to test if the user is pressing all the keys at once.  Also MULTI_MENU_OFF is one of many flags you can pass, with this one in particular preventing the user from exiting to the menu. Other flags also affect menu key behavior, add blocking, and so on. Once released I'll attach a full documentation and a program showcasing all of the features.