Thanks. Yeah, figuring out how to balance the controls was difficult, since we wanted it to be both a tool and a hazard. Basically, it wouldn't be a tool if you can also just press the key yourself.
Also, we know of the skellie and the only way to overcome it is to reload the game. We originally wanted to reload the scene on death but this messed with the checkpoints and some other stuff. Basically, we hoped not too many people would encounter this error :p