Great gameplay! My only real complaint is the usage of the limitation by having the game seemingly reset itself every 12 minutes or so. I kept feeling like I was really getting something going and then I'd have to start all over again. I understand that this game can't go on forever, but it felt very anticlimactic.
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Oh wow, nah this is a bug, thanks for letting us know! Interesting that we haven't seen it before, we've even had a few ~hour long games without issue. Can I ask what browser you were using? Also when you say it reset itself - did it just freeze, or did it wipe across the screen as if you had hit Reset Hive? Thanks so much!
Ahh cheers, could've been after you started giving honey to the queen maybe? After you start feeding honey, you only have 1 minute to feed as much as you can, then you go to the Upgrade screen for the next hive. But outside of the game description on the landing page, the only way this is communicated is a yellow countdown that appears around the Royal Chambers after you feed the first honey, which yeah just really isn't enough info for the player to go off ( -_-")
Tutorial text would clear this up if we'd got to it, but in hindsight I think we also should've focused on getting different music playing and some text pop up like "The queen is hatching, load up as much honey as you can!". The Upgrade screen itself is also barely implemented as you saw - definitely bit off just a bit more than we could chew, aha. Thanks so much for your feedback and going into detail, I really appreciate it! <3