It took me a while to realize I was interacting with the people but the environment, which actually made the game more fun, I had to constantly look for new objects to interact with while also sync with their movement.
Fun game, with an additional mechanic implementation I can see this being a complete game, mostly for mobile, its fun for killing time no serious skill required to play. I wonder if you are going to continue the work on this project post-jam?
note: after some time some of the kids got stuck/ stopped moving in a very empty room so I could barely interact with them