This is one of the more unique games I've played for the jam. Definitely a very interesting idea. As has been pointed out, the wall'o'text tutorial is bad, but you've already said that time constraints were in the way and you plan to replace it, so no problem there. I had a lot of fun rotating matrices and figuring out the best positioning in my head to give myself the biggest advantage each round. It was difficult, but not too difficult and each time I failed I kind of knew I was making a compromised choice when placing the data packet (or whatever it is, lol).
Awesome job!