Thank you very much for the detailed feedback! And I'm real glad to hear you enjoyed the game! Believe it or not, I was going to add other electroduds bouncing around in the background, but simply ran out of time to animate it with the background. And that's a completely fair and valid complaint about the UI block. Even I didn't like where I placed it, but I couldn't think of anything else to do. I also tried to make it slightly transparent, so it wouldn't be as much of a focal point (y'know, compensating for an already bad choice), but my code was so filled with spaghetti that it didn't work. And fair call on there needing to be more indication of how much time is left without looking at the timer. And finally, thank you for pointing out that bug - I know exactly what caused it just from thinking about the code, and am now internally face-palming.
Thank you very much for your time playing this game!