Reset in tutorial project not actually resetting

I’ve started trying out Defold, and made the tutorial that’s on the dashboard. It runs just fine, but when the game calls “reset” in controller.script after the game has been running for ~30 seconds. There are also minor errors that needed some code tweaks, although that is most likely just me being very bad at LUA. Those things are the animation script never thinking that hero.go is touching the ground, resulting in the hero being in the falling animation while grounded (this was fixed by adding a check that was looking for the velocity being exactly 0), as well as having the call for removing a specific platform instead of go.delete() make the game run into a sprite buffer overflow after a small amount of time.

controller.script, where the “reset” and “remove specific platform” calls exist:

go.property("speed", 6)

local grid = 460
local platform_heights = { 100, 200, 350 }
local coins = 3 

function init(self)
    msg.post("ground/controller#script", "set_speed", { speed = self.speed })
    self.gridw = 0
    self.spawns = {}
end

function update(self, dt) 
    self.gridw = self.gridw + self.speed

    if self.gridw >= grid then
        self.gridw = 0

        -- Maybe spawn a platform at random height
        if math.random() > 0.2 then
            local h = platform_heights[math.random(#platform_heights)]
            local f = "#platform_factory"
			local coins = coins
			if math.random() > 0.5 then
			    f = "#platform_long_factory"
			    coins = coins * 2 -- Twice the number of coins on long platforms
			end

            local p = factory.create(f, vmath.vector3(1600, h, 0), nil, {}, 0.6)
            msg.post(p, "set_speed", { speed = self.speed })
            msg.post(p, "create_coins", { coins = coins })
            table.insert(self.spawns, p)
        end
    end
end

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
	if message_id == hash("reset") then
		-- Tell the hero to reset.
		msg.post("hero#script", "reset")
		-- Delete all platforms
		for i,p in ipairs(self.spawns) do
			go.delete(p)
		end
		self.spawns = {}
	elseif message_id == hash("delete_spawn") then
		for i,p in ipairs(self.spawns) do
			if p == message_id then
				table.remove(self.spawns, i)
				go.delete(p)
			end
		end
	end
end

platform.script, calling “delete specific platform” (call commented out and replaced with go.delete()):

function init(self)
    self.speed = 9      -- Default speed
    self.coins = {}
end

function final(self)
    for i,p in ipairs(self.coins) do
        go.delete(p)
    end
end

function update(self, dt)
    local pos = go.get_position()
    if pos.x < -200 then
    	go.delete()
        --msg.post("/level/controller#script", "delete_spawn", { id = go.get_id() })
    end
    pos.x = pos.x - self.speed
    go.set_position(pos)
end

function create_coins(self, params)
    local spacing = 56
    local pos = go.get_position()
    local x = pos.x - params.coins * (spacing*0.5) - 24
    for i = 1, params.coins do
        local coin = factory.create("#coin_factory", vmath.vector3(x + i * spacing , pos.y + 64, 1))
        msg.post(coin, "set_parent", { parent_id = go.get_id() }) 
        msg.post(coin, "start_animation", { delay = i/10 }) 
        table.insert(self.coins, coin)
    end
end

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
    if message_id == hash("set_speed") then
        self.speed = message.speed
    elseif message_id == hash("create_coins") then
        create_coins(self, message)
    end
end

And finally, hero.script, calling “reset”:

-- gravity pulling the player down in pixel units/sˆ2
local gravity = -20

-- take-off speed when jumping in pixel units/s
local jump_takeoff_speed = 900

function init(self)
    -- this tells the engine to send input to on_input() in this script
    msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")

    -- save the starting position
    self.position = go.get_position()
    msg.post("#", "reset")

    -- keep track of movement vector and if there is ground contact
    self.velocity = vmath.vector3(0, 0, 0)
    self.ground_contact = false
end

function final(self)
    -- Return input focus when the object is deleted
    msg.post(".", "release_input_focus")
end

local function play_animation(self, anim)
    -- only play animations which are not already playing
    if self.anim ~= anim then
        -- tell the spine model to play the animation
        spine.play("#spinemodel", anim, go.PLAYBACK_LOOP_FORWARD, 0.15)
        -- remember which animation is playing
        self.anim = anim
    end
end

local function update_animation(self)
    -- make sure the right animation is playing
    if self.ground_contact then
        play_animation(self, hash("run_right"))
    else
        if self.velocity.y > 0 then
            play_animation(self, hash("jump_right"))
        elseif self.velocity.y == 0 then
        	play_animation(self, hash("run_right"))
        else
            play_animation(self, hash("fall_right"))
        end
    end
end

function update(self, dt)
    local gravity = vmath.vector3(0, gravity, 0)

    if not self.ground_contact then
        -- Apply gravity if there's no ground contact
        self.velocity = self.velocity + gravity
    end

    -- apply velocity to the player character
    go.set_position(go.get_position() + self.velocity * dt)

    -- reset volatile state
    self.correction = vmath.vector3()
    self.ground_contact = false
    
    -- apply it to the player character
	go.set_position(go.get_position() + self.velocity * dt)

	update_animation(self)
end

local function handle_geometry_contact(self, normal, distance)
    -- project the correction vector onto the contact normal
    -- (the correction vector is the 0-vector for the first contact point)
    local proj = vmath.dot(self.correction, normal)
    -- calculate the compensation we need to make for this contact point
    local comp = (distance - proj) * normal
    -- add it to the correction vector
    self.correction = self.correction + comp
    -- apply the compensation to the player character
    go.set_position(go.get_position() + comp)
    -- check if the normal points enough up to consider the player standing on the ground
    -- (0.7 is roughly equal to 45 degrees deviation from pure vertical direction)
    if normal.y > 0.7 then
        self.ground_contact = true
    end
    -- project the velocity onto the normal
    proj = vmath.dot(self.velocity, normal)
    -- if the projection is negative, it means that some of the velocity points towards the contact point
    if proj < 0 then
        -- remove that component in that case
        self.velocity = self.velocity - proj * normal
    end
end

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
    if message_id == hash("reset") then
        self.velocity = vmath.vector3(0, 0, 0)
        self.correction = vmath.vector3()
        self.ground_contact = false
        self.anim = nil
        go.set(".", "euler.z", 0)
        go.set_position(self.position)
        msg.post("#collisionobject", "enable")

    elseif message_id == hash("contact_point_response") then
        -- check if we received a contact point message
        if message.group == hash("danger") then
            -- Die and restart
            play_animation(self, hash("die_right"))
            msg.post("#collisionobject", "disable")
            
            go.animate(".", "euler.z", go.PLAYBACK_ONCE_FORWARD, 160, go.EASING_LINEAR, 0.7)
            go.animate(".", "position.y", go.PLAYBACK_ONCE_FORWARD, go.get_position().y - 200, go.EASING_INSINE, 0.5, 0.2,
                function()
                    msg.post("/level/controller#script", "reset")
                end)
        elseif message.group == hash("geometry") then
            handle_geometry_contact(self, message.normal, message.distance)
        end
    end
end

local function jump(self)
    -- only allow jump from ground
    if self.ground_contact then
        -- set take-off speed
        self.velocity.y = jump_takeoff_speed
    end
end

local function abort_jump(self)
    -- cut the jump short if we are still going up
    if self.velocity.y > 0 then
        -- scale down the upwards speed
        self.velocity.y = self.velocity.y * 0.5
    end
end

function on_input(self, action_id, action)
    if action_id == hash("jump") or action_id == hash("touch") then
        if action.pressed then
            jump(self)
        elseif action.released then
            abort_jump(self)
        end
    end
end

Thanks for reading, and really hope you can help me see the problem.