Thanks for playing and for your thoughtful feedback!
We worked on a different idea for most of the jam, then discarded it for not being fun. So, with about 2 days left we turned to this idea and just did as much as we could without crunching. Certainly, there was a lot more we wish we could have done and regret that we didn’t spend the whole time on this idea.
I think both the game and destructible UI ideas were simultaneous. The question was “What can we make in 2 days and how can we connect it to the theme?” An arcade game where you shoot everything including the UI was the answer.