So, for level 4, instead of spelling it out... maybe say move the pause menu to a different position, perhaps off the screen, so the player is forced to drag it to the center?
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It pained me to have to spell it out to players, I just got so many comments from players saying it was frustrating that I was forced to change it. I think telling the player to move the menu might be spelling it out even more though? I mean they will see the stage moving around when they do.
I was forced to make it an early level as it sort of onboards you to what you can do with the UI. I think in future versions with say 20+ levels I can revert this back to the old style and have another level do the onboarding for the UI.
I personally really love the crypticness of :
gameobject1.position = gameobject1.position
To me it doesn't matter that there's no hint at the UI. This prompt basically says "something here moves something else" and you quickly exhaust the options of things to move and have to think outside the box