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Hello! I’m Bee, a Knoxville-based Independent Game Developer! I’ve spent the last year and a half developing my passion project, FireFly! It was inspired heavily by the type of environment you’d find in the East Tennessee mountains, and my childhood memories of fields at dusk with purple skies and dazzling fireflies. It’s something I’ve put a lot of my heart into this game over the past year!

In FireFly, you play as Flyph, a small firefly whose wings are damaged after an accident. Separated from their parents, they must navigate the forest floor, sliding under bushes, climbing roots, and exploring hand-crafted environments, using momentum-based movement to chain together bursts of speed and reach new areas.

The game is still in active development, but there’s a pre-release build available here if you’d like to try it: https://bbussell.itch.io/firefly

I’d love to hear any feedback you may have about my game!

Thanks for taking the time to check it out. Your feedback will help shape the final version!

This game is so interesting! I thought it was such a fun idea!

Thank you! They were my first sprite I made for this project. I spent a lot of time on visual effects to make them as squishy as they are.

Extremely cool game concept! It’s a lot of fun!

Hi! I’m really excited to play this game, but my MacBook says the app needs to update to work on the version of MacOS I’m running. I’d be excited to play it whenever that can be fixed!

YOU NAILED THE VISUALS! I love the charm of this game! I was playing it, and someone over my shoulder asked what game it was because they enjoyed the striking visuals, and the game feels well to play on top of all of that! Well done!

This project is really cool! I can tell a lot of passion went into this, and I was thrilled to find the tape and other secrets in the garage. Exploring the maps you have now was fun.

I think the character controller is a bit rough, but I’m probably heavily comparing it to what Jet Set Radio Future is like. But it’d be cool to see things like shuffle and some form of momentum behind the character. Right now, the character approaches full speed immediately, and maybe that’s the direction you wanted. But I found myself wishing the movement had some more oomph to it. But that’s just my $0.02.

Otherwise, it was spectacular, and I could tell a lot of work has gone into building what you have so far, and I’m excited to see how it goes from here!.

Thank You! That means the world to me! If you would like, I have just updated the game to what is the definitive version of our project as we presented it at the Senior Design Showcase. So I would love to here what you think of that! There shouldn’t be too many content changes, however it includes many visual tweaks and control improvements to make certain actions(such as walljumps) easier to preform!

oh thats so weird, I a friend was able to send them to me and it worked there. I wonder if its a problem with my unzipper. Thank you for the sound effects!

Hi, I downloaded this just to listen and see how they sound, and all the files ended up being empty/unable to play audio. Not sure exactly what’s going on but I just thought I’d let you know.