Unstable Island Farming by yumao

Goal: Grow 40 carrots on the unstable island.
Controls: left/right/top/bottom to move, and space to do anything else. When you hit space, you should always follow the beat. Otherwise, there will be an earthquake and all your efforts are in vain.
Hints: When you grow certain amounts of carrots, more islands are unlocked. It's a good idea to grow on different islands so that you don't lose all the carrots when one island sinks.
Play!
Our GitHub links: devyumao and Ovilia


Font from third-party: Flat20 Headline. All other assets (music, graphics, sound effects and etc.) are original.
Ratings
| Overall | 147th | 4.026⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 196th | 3.934⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 47th | 4.184⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 674th | 3.618⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 174th | 4.316⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 92th | 4.105⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 522th | 3.306⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 283th | 3.855⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 51🗨️ |
I had a really hard time playing it though, because the instruction reel was so far away from the island that I couldn't look at both at the same time, and the music didn't feel impactful enough for me to know what to do without looking at the bar.
Waiting for the right action to appear in the beat bar can get a bit tedious sometimes, although it does add a bit more of a challenge to the game. Also, I thought the movement was also tied to the beat so I initially started moving on the beat as well. Didn't realise that it wasn't related at all until playing for a while, haha!
Unfortunately I could never reach the 48 carrots goal because the game would always stop working properly before that point (i.e. can't move around or do any actions). Not sure what causes it to happen, though; the bug seems to occur at any random moment without warning.
One of my favorite jam games so far, it’s stunning!
The sounds for performing actions to the beat are pretty satisfying. It probably would've been good if the difficulty went up a bit over time, for example if the pattern of actions changed, or if there was some kind of time pressure.