The graphics on this are just amazing for a game jam game.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #2180 | 3.378 | 3.378 |
| Overall | #2616 | 3.135 | 3.135 |
| Enjoyment | #2703 | 2.946 | 2.946 |
| Creativity | #3179 | 3.081 | 3.081 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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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.
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!
Cute game! As the comment below I think it would be better with a defined objective and more content. But cool idea!
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 :)
Interesting game with nice art and fun gameplay. I enjoyed scaling my bee colony.
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.
Hey, nice entry! The controls are smooth, and throwing the bees is satisfying. It could be a good starting point for a larger game.
Nice graphics, sound, overall presentation! An indicator to show where the hive is would be nice. Had a chill time collection honey!
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.





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