I'm a simple man. I see Pikmin, I upvote. However, if someone never played Pikmin before, it might be a bit hard to understand what to do.
I liked your take on it. The game had the right length and the core elements of Pikmin were streamlined in a clever way to make it work in a shorter amount of time a player spends with a game jam game. Cool entry! I had a little bug where I was holding one of my plants, but I couldn't throw it - but that's more than acceptable for a game jam game.