Row Sir Walter around to collect the ducks (arrow keys). This will lower the waterlevel and gems are revealed.

You can obviously only row on water, so be careful not to lower the water prematurely.

When south or north of land you can leave the boat pressing SPACE, you will find yourself on a strip of land representing the VERTICAL SLICE of the land you were close to.
Don't ask me why, it is just one of this quirky things about the protagonist Sir Walter...

Note: This time i had too many ideas, all of them too ambitious, so i settled for this (planned also an undergrund level which you could only reach on low tide) but as always time ruined my plans. Unfortunately the land mode is not complete, the land gets created, but you can't walk around or collect gems :(

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DISCLAIMER:
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During the morning hours of monday (~8h after the deadline when my brain was functioning again :) )
i spent another 2h fixing the following bugs:

- GEM collection: event not processed correctly, gems not collected
- PLAYER movement MAPVIEW: problems in the 2D view, player could drive of map
- PLAYER movement 2DVIEW: restriction problems, player couldn't move at all due to a physics problem
- PLAYER movement 2DVIEW: no autoswitch to Mapview when touchig the water

Use the link above to see the first buggy version uploaded in time.
Note, the new version is is NOT a postmortem version, no new content/feature has been added, only bugs fixed, AFAIU this is within the rules. If you don't think so, please feel free to use the original version.
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