Drag your finger towards the direction where you want the orange blob to jump. An arrow will appear, indicating where the blob will jump. When it jumps, the blob is affected by gravity, and will thus gradually fall downwards in a quadratic curve. The pads upon which you jump decay in 5 stages. You begin with near black, then it deteriorates to dark grey, grey, light grey, and white; after which it disappears. After the fifth pad, there are always 5 pads present, all occupying one of the aforementioned states. You don't have to follow the exact sequence in which they spawn, you can jump from white to near black. The decay of pads becomes quicker and quicker as the game goes on.