Well, awful news. My computer that had my game on it has been essentially nuked. I'm trying to recover everything as we speak. If the recovery process fails, I'll take my hard drive and see if I can get the stuff onto another computer.
Otherwise, this project is dead and I'm going to have to get a new desktop (without Windows 8 because that OS blows) for both college and future game development.
If it is any consolation, I was only mid-way through world 2. Anyway, I'll keep everyone posted about my game, but if there is no fixing this issue then I'll have to start a new project once I get a new computer.
Update: Recovered my hard-drive. All is well yet again. :)
My computer is up and running again. I still have to recover the files off the old hard drive, but that will not take too much longer. I think we can save this project.