The character is out of your control so he goes where ever he wants. You have to limit the options of places he can go. The best way to do that is blocking of entrances to different areas and opening up ones to new areas. I do wish we could have had time to make a tutorial but we didn't even have time to patch a game breaking bug that popped up with 30 minutes to spare. Right now in this version only the first level is playable even though there is more than 1 level.
Had we had time for a tutorial we could have made the controls a bit easier to understand.