APIS

by zarkonnen

co-authored: @arahain, @ddraigarian

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.34

In APIS, you control a swarm of bees. Gather nectar, care for your brood, defend against attackers. Gather enough nectar and you can bring forth the Imperatrix Apis, the Bee Empress.

Controls

* Click on a flower to send a bee to harvest nectar.
* Click on an enemy to send a bee to sting it.
* First Button: Make new bee (4 nectar)
* Second Button: Relocate hive (each bee can only carry one nectar, so surplus nectar will be discarded)
* Third Button: Bring forth the Imperatrix Apis (100 nectar)

Team

* Kathryn Criston (Music)
* David Stark (Graphics, SFX)
* Manuel Mumenthaler (Programming)

Tags: #bee, #bees, #cute

Genres: strategy

Tools: Unity

Comments16

kromeboy29 Apr 2019, 20:55

Nice game. Didn't managed to complete it too. The sound mix is kind of odd, maybe id need some fixing becouse some fx are very loud

AndideBob30 Apr 2019, 10:46

A very fun game, but the hornets keept killing my workers so I was stuck in a seemingly endless loop of reproducing bees to collect honey to reproduce bees to... Is this what being a bee is like?

Overall a good game!

Ruztan30 Apr 2019, 10:47

It's a good game but gets a bit boring over time. This might be just me, but well done anyhow!

Zarkonnenauthor30 Apr 2019, 10:47

Click on the hornets to kill them quickly, and you can accumulate workers and honey over time.

Xahell30 Apr 2019, 10:48

Well executed, peaceful, no problem. Good job!

fidrik30 Apr 2019, 10:48

Cool idea, was quite difficult to keep up the bee population if it got low as the enemies would take out quite a few bees when they came. Its fun though and a unique idea. good job

zimennik30 Apr 2019, 10:52

Great game! I have a lot of fun playing it. Also nice music (especially battle music)

neowhoru30 Apr 2019, 10:52

Nice little game

entirelyBees30 Apr 2019, 11:02

The little swarm of bees looks great, and works very well even when splitting up jobs between multiple flowers. I think some of the enemies like the rat (?) could be more clear in what they were doing- I wasn't sure if it was going for my bees or my honey, or both. I haven't seen anyone else do this take on the theme and it fits very well!

Marcari30 Apr 2019, 11:02

Nice work, especially the music and that it changes dynamically when entering a fight.

paul5930 Apr 2019, 11:03

Nice relaxing game but coudln't seem to get over 15 bees at any one time. A couple of very minor things I noticed - the hit box for the buttons doesn't match their shape and it's not possible to click on a flower with pollen if it's partially visible behind the buttons.

NyanDev30 Apr 2019, 12:27

Good concept, but I couldn't really understand what to do and by bees kept dying faster than I could get new ones. Good game overall.

kuro30 Apr 2019, 12:53

A pleasant game, audio and gameplay-wise. I finished the game, and the empress was born! It left due south, towards the blue screen :laughing:

deshipu1 May 2019, 11:29

I guess a good metaphor for exploitative economy. Harvest all the flowers and watch your bees slowly die off.

neakiir1 May 2019, 16:36

I wish there was an indicator of how much things cost though and what they were. The hive button in the middle had me confused for a while. Like others have said, the buzzing sound was quite a bit loud compared to the music. Other than that, had fun =)