I don't think I get what you mean when you say it penalizes you for letting the ball bounce off the screen, but if it is what I think it is, it seems like you found the one glitch I was hoping no one would find! You're not actually supposed to miss the ball, but there's this pesky bug making it miss some collisions from time to time. Trying to solve it was half of the development time, and I thought I had at least solved the ball abandoning the screen, but it seems it can still happen in some super strange conditions. About the not knowing what to do and the last bricks being tricky to destroy, you're absolutely right, I'll have to fix that once the jam ends to make the goal more understandable and the end-game more compelling. Thank you a lot for your feedback!