Thanks so much for the feedback!
Yes, on the settings menu I didn’t have time to make it game pad compatible. Sorry about that! Yet another thing that will be fix post jam.
In our vision of the full game we wanted to give teasers and reasons for players to traverse back through the level. You could actually do this once you defeat the boss at the end of the level and used the “kinetic shield” upgrade to break through walls, however there is little reason to do so as we didn’t add the content in the jam. That area with the pink laser was one of those areas. With more time to flesh out the level we - hopefully - would add some real reason you might want to go back to that area.
We’re glad you liked the progression! I was afraid it was too hard in some areas.