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Space Bees Attack!

By dylan-m

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation293.70
Humor782.78
Overall2032.50
Fun2102.10
Graphics2212.30
Theme2551.60
Coolness100720

Comments

evilseanbot 2012-04-24 11:17

I really like the idea here, and I imagine with a little more time this could have been a nice entry. Something seems off with the collision detection, though. The bees just seem to swarm right through the boxes.

raptor85 2012-04-24 11:22

same issue, the bees seemed able to fly right through the barriers, didnt stop them at all.

cosmologicon 2012-04-25 02:32

I couldn't run it on Linux. I have pyglet installed, but I'm not too familiar with it. Here's the traceback I get: http://pastebin.com/chsExKdz

Let me know if you know how to fix it and I'll try again!

dylan-m 2012-04-25 15:22

Oh, that's interesting. Looks like there's a bug report over here:
http://code.google.com/p/pyglet/issues/detail?id=456
There's a working patch, and I think it's fixed in the latest version of pyglet from its source repository. (I'm running the last release, which is a little silly since it's from 2010).

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I wish I had given myself time to work on the bad guys. I ended up rushing them because I needed at least some kind of conflict (however half-baked) if I wanted to call the result a game. Lesson learned: bad guys are tricky! The falling through barriers thing is likely because they die really easily. Once they collide with a barrier, they push it really hard and they die. (And when they die, they fall off the screen).

I think it might have been a nicer result if they were outside the physics simulation. That way I would have been able to control their movements more cleanly :)

pabloam 2012-04-26 16:45

A good prototype, but need more work, keep it up!

jezzamon 2012-04-27 08:14

Cannot play on a mac. :C

davidwparker 2012-04-28 15:25

I'm sorry, I can't play your game because I don't have Windows (OSX).

sliv 2012-04-29 11:46

I really like the bizarrity of the concept, but the game itself was pretty much unplayable for me (on Windows 7). The game was lagging immensely and the collision detection of the bees seemed to make no sense at all.

daisuke909 2012-05-01 12:01

Very creative concept, although the physics seem a bit buggy.

sandcrawler 2012-05-03 04:42

I also really liked the idea, a mixture of Tetris and Cover orange.

But the bees collision also seemed buggy for me, and no logic to what blocked them or their location.

I'm also on Windows 7.

robcozzens 2012-05-05 21:12

I would play it, but I'm on an iMac.

ra4king 2012-05-05 21:14

Very slow and buggy on Windows :(