First off, thank you for your detailed, constructive comment!
The palette is a colour palette I took from Lopsec to try to challenge myself- I rellay a lot on the contrast of light colors over dark colours. So yeah, I guess it is on purpuse.
Your point about score being visable is one I agree with- my friend have made a simmillar comment, about how it would be nice to have indevidual score on each basket. Now that the Jam is over, I could perhaps implement some of the great ideas offered by the comments.
I don't think there ISN'T a background game genre, perhaps by other name (casual game?) I play games while listening to other things all the time, especially when they are hard games that take me many tries or games i have multiple walkthroughs in. I wanted to make one which is even easier than most because when I was sick I couldn't play my usual games, but I wanted to keep my hand busy.
Thank you for taking your chance on Falling!