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Cool concept!

Feedback:

1. My monitor layout is stacked vertically and the bees appeared on my lower monitor. I would like to be able to set which monitor they colonize.

2. I couldn't figure out how to change the producer bee to make wax instead of honey. Clicking on it did nothing, and none of the menus were responsive any more once I got to that prompt.

3. The pixel art was a little blurry on my screen. It's a 1920x1200 display at 150% ui scale, so it's not unusual for things to be blurry, but for a pixel art game attached to screen width it'd be nice for it to integer scale to 1920 pixels

I loved the forestry mod for minecraft, so I'm always on the lookout for bee type games. I'm excited to see where this one goes!

sbrdrk2 days ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

I’ve already pushed a small update based on your comment. The monitor swap option is in the Settings panel at the bottom left, and I also improved the tutorial/producer interaction so the honey/beewax toggle should be much easier to find now.

I did some work on the pixel scaling side as well for different display setups. If you ever feel like checking it again, I’d be really curious to hear whether it feels better on your setup now.

Thanks again for taking the time to write all that out :)

BadRAM1 day ago

I've loaded it up again, the monitor swap feature is appreciated!

Overscrutinizing it in paint.net, the sprite scaling is pretty good.

Text has blurry edges which drags everything down, but aside from that I'm only seeing some minor scaling mismatches and misalignments that probably aren't obvious unless you're zoomed way in on a screenshot like I am. The settings menu sliders and checkboxes are not pixels at all so I'm assuming that's just unfinished.

In this screenshot I can see that the menu tray buttons are at 2.75 scale or so, which gives inconsistent column widths (3, 3, 2, 3) and clashes with the 2x scale beneath them.

This flower isn't aligned to the pixel grid of the world. This is fine for moving things like the birds and leaves but for static elements you can notice it sometimes.

sbrdrk18 hours ago

Thanks again, I really appreciate you taking the time to look this closely and point all of this out.

A lot of what you mentioned is fair. Some of the odd placement and alignment issues are probably tied to how the flower spawn system currently works, and some of the rougher visual inconsistencies are also me still being pretty inexperienced with pixel art. This is basically my first real project, and I’m building it solo, so I’m still learning as I go.

You’re also right about the UI side. Outside of the bee and upgrade sections, I haven’t really done a proper design pass on most of the UI yet, so a lot of it is there more for function than presentation right now.

Your comments are genuinely very helpful, and I’ll try to keep all of this in mind as I keep improving it. Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback :)

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