Did you know that the taller being hurt his mobility digit? His mobility digit is damaged when he propels it at the cranial shield.
It happened while engraving the lights and sounds to magnetic medium
Why do the small beings simply not travel atop the winged creatures to the molten rock?
Game? Why would you think they're playing a game? There is absolutely nothing hinting at that.
Somehow I read it as a kind of sport, like it was a scoreboard with digits on.
I see now the popcorn is trying to hint at movie.
I read it exactly the same way. Now that Iām here in the comments, Iām as confused about why I read it that way as the person above you.
The characters design of these blue guys reminds me of the Australian space related stop motion series, Plasmo.
It too is enjoyable:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_GS56w9Ey_FF2aM2erhBcMs-RAtx8Fbk
P.S Perhaps others have already made this comparison.