Little update of everything:

Portals are tough to make, and it's taken a few days to figure it out. I had decided to take a short break from the complexity and got wrapped up making a tiny maze game. It's pretty fun :)

earlier, I was using a 'player.transform' in my movement script

trying to make everything a bit more fluid, I updated it to work with rigidbody.velocity. It took a while to figure out, but, now, it's got a greater variety of capabilities :)

Finally got a move script going. This has double jump and running along with a three second stamina. There's a little lag that spikes here and there, probably due to so many 'Time.deltaTime's running. I'll try and fix it a bit later on. Here's the script:

walking animation done ;P

Arm can now hold cube. Now, we need to increase its spin and yeet this outta existence

here's the camera script and what got changed on the movement script

(if you use it, make sure to have a parent object with a camera child, and a parent player object with a player child. use a character controller)

the movement script isn't right, but the camera's working!

he looking like a lizard

working on some low-poly character rigging:

Thanks everyone for helping 'Perry's Dungeon' grow to be a better a game than I could've made on my own! Special thanks to @overratedblueberrystudios (on gamejolt) for making some sweet logo art! Make sure to go check them out :D