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A jam submission

1000 Carrots and Other ThingsView game page

Youmu and Reisen sell fresh produce, incrementally.
Submitted by Karob (@krichotomy) — 2 hours, 49 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Balance (Challenge & Fairness)#43.7863.786
Gameplay#123.7503.750
Overall#163.8213.821
Visuals#163.8933.893
Concept#193.7143.714
Story / Writing#243.0363.036
Audio / Music#273.1433.143
Use of LGBTQ+ Themes#283.0363.036

Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Members
Karob

Streaming Permission

Yes

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Comments

(1 edit) (+1)

I had a surprising amount of fun with this game! It has a smooth gameplay loop, and the progression was really well paced in a lot of ways. The upgrades help a lot with the pacing, although one of my favorite features is the juggling minigame. It's good QoL, being an effective way to actually reduce the waiting time and sell off excess resources more easily (or even entertain Reisen).

Beyond that, it's a very cozy experience thanks to the soft music and visuals. I can tell that you put a lot of work into this, and it shows. Well done!
(^∇^)

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

The juggling started as "wouldn't it be funny and random if there was juggling in the upgrade tree" and ended up as a gimmick that somehow worked well in many ways for the game despite its simplicity. I'm thrilled to hear someone else call it out.

Submitted(+2)

This is a really nice and chill game! Sprite work in the harvesting parts is high quality, while Youmu's portrait being put on it's side when Reisen is gone is quite humorous, a unique one that better shows Youmu missing her bunny gf would work nicely for conveying their relationship and how much Reisen means to her, not to deny the resourceful charm of the current one of course!

Submitted(+2)

Very enjoyable and a very solid incremental game, it's being a while since I play one. I really like how the wait is linked with how much Youmu misses Reisen and how the gameplay somehow reflects how they grow closer to each other more and more but they become more resilient and independent and they don't need to be close to each other all the time as the time you spent on the farm grows and Reisen sells bigger amounts. Maybe I'm reading to much between lines but somehow it gave me that impression and it was kind of nice.

My favorite part: maybe not so much part of the game but I do recommend this game as something to share with someone, like playing this game while talking to someone and sharing a cozy and chill time. It's reaaally cozy

Developer

It's more about how they get too busy and need to slow down hehe, but that works too.

Submitted(+2)

At first I thought this was going to be a simple cute farming game without much to it, but there actually ended up being a good amount of depth to the mechanics that made it really fun to play. On top of that, while I didn't think much of Youmu and Reisen as a pair at first, the fact that Reisen is essential to gameplay progression but every time she leaves you're left waiting around for her to come back, combined with the slight shift in graphics and music, makes it feel really lonely whenever she's gone. Then, when she comes back, it feels nice, and it's even more satisfying when you have enough money to not need to send her away anymore. That's a really clever gameplay-integrated way to make the player care about a couple and appreciate the weight of small things even in a game that otherwise doesn't have much of a plot.

Developer

I'm glad my emotional manipulation scheme was successful. 🦝🙏

Submitted(+2)

Very cute, very fun! a nice calm game to play, nice  little incremental game  to play after a long day, would recomend!

(+2)

This is fun! Once the dash, slash, and different types of crop come together it's nice to potter around harvesting things. Obv. the art assets are limited, but they're also charming--there's something very funny about Youmu lying listlessly on the bench when Reisen's not there.

Developer(+1)

> youmu.rotate()

Submitted(+2)

Cute game, decently enjoyable, scaling up the farm is fun.