Artistic Statement / Use of Theme
Our project puts the player in the role of a bee, highlighting the importance of pollinators and the impact climate change can have on their habitats.
Through exploration and gameplay, the player discovers environmental threats and the need to protect biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
Our positive climate solution is simple: raising awareness of the crucial role pollinators play in maintaining biodiversity by stepping into the shoes of a wild bee that must pollinate native flowers while avoiding pesticides, predators, and environmental hazards.
We also offer at the end real-life solutions to help protect local ecosystems by encouraging players to plant native flowers in their gardens or on their balconies and learn about guerrilla gardening.

Development Summary
Our goal was to create a polished, beautiful 2D game that could run smoothly in web browsers. However, the limitations of WebGL forced us to make difficult compromises and find workarounds to maintain good performance, resulting in a game that was less visually and aurally polished than we originally envisioned.
Our original concept remained mostly unchanged throughout development: creating a game where the player controls a bee and explores an environment while facing different environmental dangers.
The biggest challenge was keeping the scope manageable while still making the experience feel complete and meaningful. We had to prioritize the core gameplay and simplify ideas that were too ambitious for the time available. We had the idea of choosing bees for a topic pretty fast in the developement, which allowed us to think rather fast about which gameplay and which artistic direction to choose. All throughout the production, we were really mindful of the scope, to be able to present a polished game.

Topic Tags
Garden, environment, bees, ecosystem, biodiversity, flowers, weather, plants, seeds

Sprint Participation
No

Game Engine, Platform, Format
Unity

Generative AI Disclosure
We didn't use AI