You control a bee colony attacked by a lumberjack. Every strike of his axe makes inevitable death closer. The only chance to save the queen is to relocate her to another tree before the current tree falls. But every action consumes resources, ecpecially relocation.
Prepare a new tree for the queen, collect enough resources and move the queen to a safe place.
CONTROLS: - F to Fullscreen - R to restart - M to Mute - Mouse to click on action icons CHANGELOG: - Fixed balance. - Changed camera movement. - Added more randomness to the flight of bees. - Added an icons description and a hint arrows . - Removed lumberjack upgrade system due to an exploit.
Overall love the idea! The art is very cute and the sounds are satisfying. I was a bit confused by the abilities at first, but figured them out the second time I played.
Fun game! I like the camerawork and the graphics, it all blends well together. It does seem a little easy to misunderstand the game and how it works. While you can't place a tutorial in the game anymore in terms of the Jam, you can still place a quick tutorial in text form on the page =)
Takes a few tries to figure out what you need to do, but it's fun once you do. A lot more resource management skill than I expected to need in a "cute little bee game".
The game has a cool concept and is quite fun; however, I found an incredibly powerful exploit. The way to make the game the easiest is simply to never attack the first woodcutter as another woodcutter will never come while one is already present and the first one has a very low DPS.
PS: Killing the woodcutters very efficiently makes the game virtually impossible which makes the exploit of not killing the woodcutters relatively easy to find and making it so that the more you decide to prioritize killing woodcutters, the worse off you are, seems like a very poor design choice.
Great game! The artwork here is phenomenal, and the bzz sounds are very cool, it fits the theme completely because no matter what you do, the tree will get chopped.. Also i think the timer should be more faster the more you survive, as the HP of the crazy axe man increases overtime, however the gameplay is clear and very good!
Very cool game, took a little time till I figured out what does what, and I finally managed to reach the goal after several failures (I wonder if the way I did it was the solution from the very beginning, but don't want to spoil) :) It look very pretty :) The bees are cute :D
@ezra3 Thanks for found this exploit. Yes, it breaks all game mechanics. Right now I'm not sure how to fix it, but I'll figure it out. Thank you for your attentiveness.
The game is fairly cool, however it feels pretty slow and the game's economy needs some balance. However, I really liked the graphics and the ambiance, great entry!
Took turns playing this game with my daughter and we ended up playing for over an hour! The art is awesome, sounds and music is satisfying, the game play (once we figured it out) was easy enough but the puzzle of timing and trying to beat each others "high score" was so much fun! I would suggest to add a high score tally at the end because we forgot to check the timer after we died most of the time. Also being able to heal our tree a little maybe? Or add health when you build more trees? Overall really fun game! PS My daughter would like to know when she can download the game on her phone :)
Cute game. I really like the idea. Took me a while to understand what is going on but got the hang of it after playing it a few times. Maybe a tutorial would be nice. Also a soundtrack would be great. Art and sound effects are very nice though. Good work keep it up!
What a great game! At first glance I thought it was made in 3d, it was a pleasant surprise to realize that everything is 2d, all the art is very beautiful, from the UI icons to the colors and the small downs. I really liked the gameplay and how it felt, actually just having to click according to the strategy you want to follow seemed very interesting to me. Damn lumberjack, I wish you could throw stones at him to chase him away xD! Excellent game, congratulations!!
Nice simple game. Your almost never idle. But never hitting the woodchopper makes the game too easy, and trying keep him away makes it practically unbeatable. Especially since later woodchoppers have more health AND deal more damage to the tree.
Also it was a nice touch to be able to choose several new tree, but left me confused a bit. As after building first one, I also wanted to build a second tree, so I had to wait respective amount of honey/bees only to find out I am not allowed to build a second tree.
Overall well done, especially with the cinematic transitions at the start of the game.
It's hard to beat but fun while trying to do so :)) Not sure about the right strategy yet hehe (I tried twice for 15 min), but I will find out ;) :)
The graphics are very cute and there's anot of variety while not being too complex. it's also good you implemented the info button inside of the game so player's don't have to tab out for the explanation :)
Lastly, I also really liked what you did with the theme! (I hate the theme.. 99% highscoregames lol)
But I liked that you can actually win in this :) Good job!
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PS: Killing the woodcutters very efficiently makes the game virtually impossible which makes the exploit of not killing the woodcutters relatively easy to find and making it so that the more you decide to prioritize killing woodcutters, the worse off you are, seems like a very poor design choice.
Fantastic work! ✌
It look very pretty :) The bees are cute :D
@ezra3 Thanks for found this exploit. Yes, it breaks all game mechanics. Right now I'm not sure how to fix it, but I'll figure it out. Thank you for your attentiveness.
PS My daughter would like to know when she can download the game on her phone :)
@thenerdster Thanks, its a really good idea to add high score screen at the end.
Also it was a nice touch to be able to choose several new tree, but left me confused a bit. As after building first one, I also wanted to build a second tree, so I had to wait respective amount of honey/bees only to find out I am not allowed to build a second tree.
Overall well done, especially with the cinematic transitions at the start of the game.
@emaigualmc2-art No, it's actually 3 days. This is a Jam game, not a compo.
@bloodycoin Well, I thought about it. There is only one bee queen in the game, so there is no need to build an additional tree.
It's hard to beat but fun while trying to do so :)) Not sure about the right strategy yet hehe (I tried twice for 15 min), but I will find out ;) :)
The graphics are very cute and there's anot of variety while not being too complex. it's also good you implemented the info button inside of the game so player's don't have to tab out for the explanation :)
Lastly, I also really liked what you did with the theme! (I hate the theme.. 99% highscoregames lol)
But I liked that you can actually win in this :) Good job!