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A jam submission

BeeBetterView game page

A wasp! Scale you colony to a whole
Submitted by Sabretusk — 1 hour, 12 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#21803.3783.378
Overall#26163.1353.135
Enjoyment#27032.9462.946
Creativity#31793.0813.081

Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Colony Scales with playing

Development Time

96 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
A Wasp! Watch out, Try to take back your land.

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Submitted( 1)

The graphics on this are just amazing for a game jam game.

Developer

Nice to hear!

Submitted( 1)

Really fun idea! Love a good bee colony!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted( 1)

Very chill game! It's really fun to grow your colony and just roam around finding flowers. I don't know whether the music was made by you or not, but it sets the vibe of the game nicely.

Developer( 1)

Everything is self made, thanks to our hobby team!

Submitted( 1)

The swarm must grow. . .

Developer

 I am the Swarm. Armies will be shattered. Worlds will burn.

Submitted( 1)

Love the art style, flying and collecting pollen felt satisfying. Took me a while and losing a lot of my bees until I realized I could shoot them which was so funny to me. Flying back to hive from further and further away started to be a bit tedious especially when I was lost. All in all great game!

Developer

We will implement better communication about the shooting and the hive problem!
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoying playing.

Submitted( 1)

Cute Game!

Submitted( 1)

Cute game! As the comment below I think it would be better with a defined objective and more content. But cool idea!

Submitted( 2)

Nice game! I wish it had a clear goal, since after I had a huge army I didn't know what to do

Congrats on the submission :)

Developer( 1)

We will give your army a clear goal in the next release!

Submitted( 1)

super cute style :) i love bees so much!!!!!! the art is adorable!

Submitted( 1)

Interesting game with nice art and fun gameplay. I enjoyed scaling my bee colony.

Submitted( 1)

cute and meditative, kind of like stardew valley.  I wish there was more variety in the map and perhaps some deeper mechanics.  flying around and harvesting pollen is surprisingly satisfying, though.  I was also surprised by how nice the graphics were; a lot of them looked quite nice, like the honey combs.

Developer

Thanks! I can see you have some pixel art experience your self ;)
Yeah, we trying to give the game some more features surrounding the scaling of the bees.

Submitted( 1)

Hey, nice entry! The controls are smooth, and throwing the bees is satisfying. It could be a good starting point for a larger game.

Developer

Yeah? Is it a base for a bigger game?

Submitted( 1)

Fine base for a game. Could bee a nice Slime Rancher like game where you collect different types of bees and interact with many different flowers to produce honey or something like that. Overall nice idea!

Developer

Also a  great idee. Glad you enjoyed playing.

Submitted( 1)

Nice graphics, sound, overall presentation! An indicator to show where the hive is would be nice. Had a chill time collection honey!

Developer

Thanks for playing. Yeah, we had a indicator but we had a bug last minute..

Submitted( 1)

Gathering bee's and draining all flowers was fun at first but after growing my colony to a decent size I felt a bit lost. Killing all the giant wasps was quite easy and after draining the red flower I felt like I had seen everything. The game is going the right direction but was lacking a goal, maybe a competing bee hive? 

Developer

Good idee. Thanks for the feedback.

Submitted( 1)

I liked getting more bees for my swarm, but I didn't know why I was doing that. I missed some sort of goal. It was fun to fly around and explore, but I got lost and couldn't find my hive again. So fellow player, beeware, don't lose your hive!

Developer

You're right. Having a goal would be making this a real game.

Submitted( 1)

I enjoyed the main mechanics but was missing gameplay at the later stages.

Letting your swarm focus on one flower, letting it spread our and swarm to all nearby flowers was super satisfying.
You managed to really capture the swarm feeling. (Not that I would know what being a swarm would feel like :D)

Maybe a circular map with the hive in the center could have worked better.
The rectangular approach led to some very long and empty journeys.

It was interesting to discover new flower types and learning which ones give the more pollen.

It took me a while to understand that left clicking allows attacking the larger insects. It cost me half my swarm in the early game and led me to restart since there was no way to get the bees back. (You can only get new bees, but you can not fill the empty hive)

I wish that spreading pollen would have caused more flowers to grow. At the end there were no flowers left and my swarm was doomed to starve. :(

I went back to the game afterwards to check what happens when you lose all your hp and your swarm. Turns out you just get softlocked. There is no way to get any more bees and no death screen or anything. I guess you had bigger plans than the deadline allowed.

Nevertheless it is very impressive what you did accomplish in the time frame.
If you update the game post jam, I'd be very interested to see what else you can think of.

Developer( 1)

Thanks for taking your time to let us know what you think about the game.

- The map idee is a great solution to the boring journeys.
- The communication about all the features need to be clear.
- Recover mechanic when you lost all the bees need to be implemented.
- Oh, the flowers had te grow back. A bug to fix!
- True no time to setup the menu's and restart buttons. 

Again. Thanks for given this much feedback. 

Submitted( 1)

Cool game. :) I like bees. 

Developer

Same

Submitted( 1)

Cute game! Collecting pollen was satisfying, although the game felt a bit empty at times, but the idea and mechanic is really cool.

Developer

So you say, make a full game out of it?

Submitted( 1)

Very cute game, I loved the sounds of the bees collecting pollen and the animations on the queen. I wish the game was a bit harder though. I never felt threatened by the wasps and could just keep on expanding my bee colony without issues.

Developer( 1)

Harder? OK! Making the wasp a threat!

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