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A jam submission

A Great Place to Start a Garden (IGA x Unity 2025)View game page

Be Careful where you plant that potato
Submitted by Ancient_Newt — 12 hours, 40 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Most Fun Game#171.8522.000

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

uhh, between the very much 3D motion sickness inducing controls (camera moved *way* too fast, and prolly the FOV also didn't agree with me), and the expanding potato earthquake field, I uhh, don't quite know what to make of it. 

(The 3D motion sickness is a problem, the expanding potatoes is, I assume, a feature and intended. The earthquakes.. honestly kinda funny, but I can't help but feel like it's not intended..).

Anyway, there isn't much of a gameplay loop (I'm guessing time constraints hit?), but it seems like it can be a basis that can be taken in a few different directions once things are stabilized! 

Hope y'all had a good jam!

Submitted

I liked stuttering while walking through my dense field of potatoes. I guess this was a good way to find out if they have a potato pc 😎

Submitted

Very interesting! It was cool that the plants seemed to hit a critical mass and started a population explosion! It was also cool when the console log popped up! That could be a cool story element! And a pretty cool looking world. Well done!

Developer

Thank you, so positive. 

Submitted

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH MY PCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!
i dont understand it, but i guess i confirmed 1 thing, potatoes can crash pc's.

Developer(+1)

lol, I'm sorry. I should have capped max potatoes before posting the build probably.

Submitted

I guess you should 😭🥀
but still i have a small laugh when the crash happened💀

Submitted

Very cool UI buttons. I don't think I understand the game objective. I plant one potato and it multiplies until the audio bugs and produces a dev log.

Developer

thanks for trying it. I was planning to add a game loop of harvesting and processing potatoes,  but I spent all of my time making the planting, growth, and multiplying mechanics. So I just decided to post what I had finished. It's more of a mechanic than a game right now.

Submitted

It looks cool! The growing animation is spot on