1. I mean I don't see a problem with these 4 tiles. I wanted to have a way for the player to reorient itself and its working - can't say its there by design but when I saw it, I decided to not implement another mechanic to rotate. The game is procedurally generated and although its possible to generate precise solvable levels - maybe we will try to do it, I would like experiment with generators more, have barely any experience - the 4 tiles are there to make sure the level is always solvable. And most of the time it works. And it also lets You feel smart, and even for some reason drop the game, don't know why ;) but yeah You saw everything. You can read below that someone went to 4k points, and needed to go back to reorient itself, even when there was no 4 tiles - now that's being engaged!
The time pressure could be done, but we didn't want it really, now the game is more chill, like a minesweeper. What we should do is a high score table, it would become competitive on its own. Though people would find out there are bugs later in the level generator:P
And You are slightly wrong about penalty, its there. You get points each screen and You get less if You took more steps. It should be better balanced to make it more clear.
2. I agree. Actually - from the very beginning - I wanted to show projection of the face on the floor, that way You would always see what would come next. Heck, it could've even been just a light in the correct color. But somehow scrapped it, don't know why.
3. I mean, sorry but we chuckled at "looks like it was hastily thrown together in the last second":D Of course it was thrown last second, its a jam:D And even now when we slowly fix the game, we don't touch the UI, it won't make this game any better, there are games without menus at all and they work. I think for the next jams we will just prepare snippets/framework for menus and stuff, because its not what we want to focus during jam at all. Well unless its a part of gameplay, not a utility.
The text was written in like two minutes, so pardon my lousy English, im not a native. But I can't find spelling errors, where are they?