Thank you very much for the honest and very detailed feedback, I wished I had you as a tester during development!
The tutorial and the communication is indeed not good and a case of style over substance, a mistake I learned a lot from as a game developer. The generation of items is shown below the craft respectively destroy button and is independent of the characters; their movement doesn't matter and is decoration only.
I hope I'll find the time to make a proper update of Brushwood Buddies in the future and bring it to a newer state (I used quite some old tech developing it!), but the low sale figures made it kind of hard to justify working on it as I do game development and illustration as a living.
Nonetheless and independent of an update, the lessons and points you and others brought up will definitely have an influence on future efforts of mine (especially UI design)! ♥