We're really happy you enjoyed playing our game. Thank you!
Yeah I was trying to be clever with the whole 'future' thing, and thinking in abstract terms as if moving right is moving into the future kind of thing.
It didn't work out particularly well, but it was an experiment!
Also, for a more full-fledged version of this we were thinking of pressing down to freeze a character in place, so that character would stay there forever. Would save hanging around, and create interesting problems to solve.