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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #226 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Audio | #257 | 3.427 | 3.427 |
| Game Design | #287 | 3.573 | 3.573 |
| Innovation | #321 | 3.448 | 3.448 |
| Overall | #326 | 3.470 | 3.470 |
| Fun | #501 | 3.271 | 3.271 |
| Theme | #677 | 3.271 | 3.271 |
Ranked from 96 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
The Hive must work together to attain glory!
A single bee can accomplish almost nothing, but many bees are unstoppable!
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Programming - Russell/Worldshatter
Art - Pippa/IHaveAnInkling
Only 3rd party asset is music from Incompetech.
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The most innovative so far, especially for a game jam game. Very well done!
I love this kind of games, and this one is not the exception! The concept is pretty original, and really entertaining. I think that with a little more of polish it would be almost perfect game! Congratulations!
The game is great and the concept is really original. But the game still needs some polish. It gets pretty repetitive very quickly and thereby a bit boring. The graphics are great and the sound effects are on point, which adds a lot to the already great game feel. Great work!
Nice concept.
This could be very engaging to play, once polished.
Good work.
Great art and sound :) Fun game. I wonder if you change the % in benefit of player or what we see is what we get.
I am a miserable failure :( well, Worker #486 is... This game is very addictive, easy to play but not easy to win. Only thing I missed was constant bad bee puns =P, the rest of the game was brilliant! Impressive what you managed to achieve in one week :)
Easy to play, well done!
this was really fun and addictive xD I found myself just sitting thinking of my choices and what will be best FOR THE HIVE! xD
really beautiful art and great concept! great work :>
Love the art style! And it is a fun game... the music is lovely! Great game concept in relation to the theme of the jam. I do wish I could skip or click to load the conversations a little faster. Overall a lovely game!
Fun and addictive! Keep it up!
It would be nice if you could rate my game too :)
This game had a lot of heart to it! The take on the theme was interesting. While it was great, I think I found it a tad easy, though maybe I just got lucky early on when I had a bunch of extra bees to allocate. Good job leaning easier rather than hard though!
Great game!
This is such a great game! The art is gorgeous, the music is delightful, and it has such a great game structure. I love that you have to think through your options; it's a really well put together game!
I love it hahaha, I keep losing for 3 times until I managed to win. and every time I lose I want to come back hahaha. nice work good job
Super fun and charming time, games like this where you can improve your chances but never quite guarantee it are cool to me for the sense of unpredictability it adds when pulled off right, and in here it definitely was executed to a reasonable degree. The way this ties to the theme is really cool as well, with the whole idea of leading an army and all that, and was made even better by the combination of charming visuals and audio. I definitely found there to be an issue with difficulty though, as there was never a point where I really felt in any danger of losing, with most of the punishments being negligible outside a couple, and the cost of bees being very minor. The difficulty felt quite good for the first couple of days however, where there was never quite enough bees to be able to address everything nicely, but quickly snowballed to the point where I could just max out the chances for everything from the 4th day onwards. The dialogue speed also felt quite slow, though since this only came up at the start and end, it wasn't too egregious. Despite this criticism, this is really cool and has some easy potential to become even cooler with some more balancing and refinement.
The game was wonderful!
Interesting idea and bees as the theme was just genius,
Oh and please check out and rate my game too :)
The game was nice, although it would be nice if you could skip the exposition, the exposition progressed faster, and the tutorial was embedded into the exposition. In all, pretty nice game!
Thanks for playing! There is a skip button for dialogue but from this and a few other comments I agree that I should have both made it a bit bigger and also that I should have implemented the option to skip through text by clicking. A more integrated tutorial would definitely be a big bonus and something I would love to add at some stage!
I liked the art, music and bee sounds, they make the game "whole", so to speak.
Just the difficulty is too easy, but the concept is great and very good implemented.
The Jam's theme is more or less inside the hive concept.
Great work!
Thank you for playing! Really glad you like it, I've touched on it a few times in replies here but you're definitely right about the difficulty. It was a bit too hard in playtesting and I've likely overcompensated a bit. Lots to consider for future games!
Good job. Nicely done
I like the art and the entire look of the game, well done
Great game! The game was very charming! I really like the sound effects and the music. The music specifically just really fits the idea of the game in my opinion. I also enjoyed the unique art style. On top of all of that the game fits the theme well and is very polished. One thing I would critique that it would nice to know what category of resources will be affected if I pass or failed an event. This is a small thing though. Overall a very good game!
Thanks a lot! You can see the effects of an event on a tooltip when you mouse over the event but I think there's a lot I could have done to make that a bit clearer. If I had more time I know I would have focused a lot more on the card design to pack more info in to deal with that exact problem. Still, great that you had fun with the game!