Well, you win lol. This is amazing, super impressive on every level, the music is great, the gameplay is great, the art is great, the animation is super smooth and looks really good, itâs absolutely insane you managed to do this for a jam, this is basically a full game.
Bugs (bees): Tank units randomly get stuck on nothing sometimes and donât start moving again until theyâre attacked. Donât know what causes this. Also, the queen being hit sound effect keeps clipping my headphones and speakers even when the other sounds are at a reasonable volume and play fine, donât know whatâs up with that.
Did I mention how incredibly mind bogglingly impressive this is?
fun fact the damage unit also gets stuck and if i would why i would have fixed the issue but i have no idea and i canât replicate it on purpose. i think itâs them getting locked in their attack loop and a new unit resets them. Idk what is up with the queen audio though, i didnât have time to figure out how to do art for audio sliders.
Whilst I understand the limitation of not having the queen get forever bigger, it would be nice to see further purple honey give some boost, like a single bonus bee for each one.
(Who am I kidding, I just wanna feed the queen some more! )
Yeah, they still moved and behaved like a Scout; they just couldnât transform.
(Also, I think the hitbox staying there makes some sense; it prevents you from making last-minute changes and encourages preparing before the fight happens. Iâm pretty sure the unit was knocked out of its animation right before it tried to swap sprites.)
I just gotta say that I love how this game turned out! Iâve played through it a few times already and I still want to go back and play it some more!
One issue I found though and I think maybe others may have found it is that sometimes one of my units will end up stuck in place and not march forward, but they still attack enemies if they get nearby. Aside from that this is a wonderful game, and I love the fat bee aesthetic!
yeah that was an issue i knew about before launch but because it fixes and has a very very rare chance of every unit being stuck like that (and because i have no idea why it happens) i left it. It can happen to both player and enemy units. itâs just some logic error that i believe causes the unit to get stuck in their attack state. (but i didnât use a state machine because im not fast with that yet so idk where the error happens)
Suppose the purples acted like health boosts for the Queen, and the weight stages act like overhealth indication? (i.e., taking damage would knock her weight stages down until you healed her with more purple)
Loved everything about the game and I truly hope to see it updated or iterated on further. If even support its development if that were to become an option.
Any critique I could make has already been said by others. Seldom met any bugs in my playthroughs; that I at least noticed.
You should add a character that explodes. Like it dies via exploding (except when it gets killed). Kind of like a moving bomb that detonates when itâs near enough towards its enemy/enemies. Basically, a creeper, but itâs a bee.
Anyway, I enjoyed that. Good game. Keep up the good work.
Thatâs a pretty neat idea, yo. Maybe if we do get to expand the game later one we could add that. Thanks for the suggestion, and thank you for the compliment!
Would love to see this project continued/improved upon. Thereâs a lot of potential in this little project, from units to maybe different factions of insect-girls and itâs actually easy to imagine a storyline. Admittedly am also curious how the Bomber bee would look (massive-bellied, extremely slow unit to make up for how much damage her explosion does? Who knows, not me).
Seriously though, reckon itâs one of, if not the best entry this year. Also impressive you managed to make such a fun game despite the âhands offâ restriction.
Fat Thickie Beeeees, game jam 2019. I still canât BELIEVE how many people have brought that up from this game. Like, how can yall still remember that mess that never was?? lmao
Itâs not the same idea, since both jams had different restrictions, but it does feature fat and thick bees, so personally, Iâll take it as my comeback story lol
)