Yes, I think you’re quite right about the tutorial. There was a lot more written material for the jam that I originally wrote this for that was part of the evaluation, so I didn’t get a lot of feedback from players about being confused on what to do. In this jam there would be no reason to read it, so I think this revealed a weakness that wasn’t obvious to me.
I think I’m going to add another update where this is explained in the game up front before I try to take it anywhere more ambitious.
Thank you for the feedback!