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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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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!
Awesome game! I really enjoyed playing it. Clever way to apply the theme
Really nice :D
I love the art style and the gameplay, I haven't seen any other games like it in this jam, I do believe that the difficulty should be ramped up a bit as there wasn't much challenge
Thanks! Yeah I think there are some things that could be done to increase the difficulty. A couple of the playtest builds were a bit brutal so may have overcompensated in the opposite direction!
Congrats on finishing such a polished game!
Some of my favorite parts were:
Some suggestions for improvement:
Overall I thought the game was really fun and I would love if you could take a look at mine when you get the chance: https://cthemess.itch.io/find-my-way-home
Thanks! Glad you had fun! There's certainly some difficulty tuning that could be done in places, if we ever have another look at it I'll probably add some more events and make things a bit harder.
Congrats on finishing such a polished game!
Some of my favorite parts were:
Some suggestions for improvement:
Overall I thought the game was really fun and I would love if you could take a look at mine when you get the chance: https://cthemess.itch.io/find-my-way-home
Great game, really well done and I enjoyed playing! Not much else to say, well done!
Glad you liked it! For The Hive!
Nice relaxing game, I really liked the art and music!
I can totally see this progressing towards something similar to Papers Please, with more focus on story elements.
Well done!
Thanks!
This one is adorable! I love how creative you got with the tasks you wrote! The art is also awesome :) great game!!!!
Thank you, we're glad you like it!
This game is adorable <3 Really liked the cute artstyle and music, only feedback I have is that it's sometimes a bit hard to put in a precise number
Glad you like it! Yeah I agree the slider precision could be a bit tighter, maybe by having arrows either side to just change one number. All good to consider for the future.
This is giving me serious Papers Please vibes, and I love it. Super cute art style, and the task descriptions and dialogue are really funny. I'm glad the queen found my work satisfactory. For the hive!
Thanks so much, the original working title for the game was going to be "Papers Bees" so I'm glad the aesthetic comes across. Over the project we also wanted to merge in some aspects of office workplace hellscapes and I think it came out good! (Fun fact: Nearly all of the dystopian "inspirational quotes" between levels are real "inspirational work quotes" from google that I edited to be bee themed)
Great game! The gameplay is fun and I love the cute graphics. Good job!
Thank you!
This game is awesome it a great strategy game and I don't really see anything that should be changed other than maybe allowing the time span be from a week to 3 weeks but its really replay able so I don't think that's needed
Glad you liked it! With a longer jam we'd have definitely loved to increase the time span of the game, it would be great to add more events to the deck so that there's even more variety without repeats showing up. We'd also probably have to add some more mechanics to keep things interesting but it would be a fun project.
The game was really fun! Everything was great especially the card texts, those were really funny. One thing is I don't really see how it fits the theme of the jam, but maybe its just me. Great game anyway!
Really amazing game, everything about it is fantastic! The art, music, gameplay is all really good. The concept of the game is very unique and fun and the gameplay is great. The only criticism I have is that I feel as if they should be a button that lets you speed up the dialogue but other than that it was amazing!
Thanks, glad you had fun! There's a skip button for dialogue but it should definitely be more visible, I also agree that if I went back I would add a way to click and skip to the end of a line of dialogue. For The Hive!
Absolutely loved the artwork! Amazing job. Loved the music too. Are these Russian bees? lol. The Queen ended up liking my work :P Very interesting/unique concept. Bee hive management simulator. Now I've seen it all hehe. The only "criticism" I can come up with is that in many cases, the success chance goes up rather fast, so it's easy to budget enough bees to drive it way up.. net result is failure is fairly rare. Other than that, excellent work! For the hive! :P
We're so glad you like it! We wanted to go for a kind of crypto-soviet aesthetic kind of like Papers Please (the original working title was Papers Bees). Over the week the style kind of shifted to being a mixture of that and nightmarish modern office work. For The Hive!
I actually got a papers please vibe while I was playing due to the music!
big fan of the art style looks really nice, feels great to play and the musics really good really solid submission
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!