That is a valid way to do things. But I guess I have to think about how to make it clearer once we're allowed to edit.
The concept is basically like interacting while socially distancing. You can go around to collect more 'pixels' into your circle, which would get you more points faster, but moving around risks you breaking social distancing and if you get TOO close the pixels affected will run away and you will lose points. Negative points are possible.
Which makes aiming to lose as many points as possible ALSO a valid way to things.