supergamersgames 2020-04-20 18:24
It's pretty good.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Hive Mind
By mateusboga and whycardboard
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1195 | 3.51 | 45 | |
| Fun | 1083 | 3.38 | 46 | |
| Innovation | 1036 | 3.37 | 47 | |
| Theme | 450 | 4.03 | 47 | |
| Graphics | 722 | 3.95 | 48 | |
| Humor | 1154 | 2.90 | 44 | |
| Mood | 1589 | 3.17 | 45 |
It's pretty good.
Nice game! I like how you used flight of the bumblebee for the music xD
The game itself is intuitive and easy to learn, and it gets pretty hectic as the holes open up faster! At some point I was really frantically clicking and I got really into the game!
Some notes I have: - The bee animation is nice, but it could use a little more; Simple things like nodding the head and slightly moving the legs would help them look a lot more alive - The contrast for the background is really high and it becomes a little hard on the eyes after staring at it for a while. Lowering the contrast would alleviate that while bringing out the holes a bit more to the user, two birds with one stone! - The random bee movement can be a little bit annoying when holes open up and I have to wait for bees to move across the whole level to get there if I just so happen to not have bees close by. Perhaps you can look into having two types of bees and being able to 'buy' bees with produced honey so the player can get better bees as the game progresses. Just an idea :)
The artwork is really good, especially that cover image!
Overall I really enjoyed the game, the difficulty curve and pacing is pretty well balanced too! Great work :)
Love the graphics and the idea. Satisfying animations and style! Pretty simple and fun, had a good time. My only complaint was that if you have a bee selected and you clicked on another, it de-selected the first be instead of immediately selecting the second bee. Also, would have been cool to have a survival timer to see how long you lived! Regardless, I think it's a solid entry and enjoyed it!
Really beautiful art, also appreciated that bees fix not only one hole but also every other connected one.
Nice game
nice game, very hectic. when the wasps appear it gets quite messy, but i like it and the sound fits also very whel!
(note: played on linux using wine, it works perfectly!)
Well i guess this was more stressful than something else! :smile: Managed to get quite far but at the end I'm surely was overwhelmed by the number of wasps getting in the nest. Didn't had enough much time to actually save the queen! some feedback: Would have been nice to see a timer of how long did I stay in the game :) and also when wasps were stacking on each other on the queen, with their health bar it was a bit messy to understand how much bees to send. it resulted in a bar brawl pretty much :smile:
Nice entry and good choice of the music in 8-bit! Thanks for having playing our game! 99.png
Woah this is a really hard game haha. Pixel art is perfect, I liked the idea!! Off course it needs balance, but that's impossible to get on a jam haha. Great job!!
This was fun! It felt like the moment I had one wasp - the game was over. For some reason there were times where I thought I clicked a bee and sent it somewhere but the bee didn't go there. A stronger visual indicator for bee commands might have helped. For example I would consider showing a line when a bee is headed somewhere. Also maybe dragging that line from the bee instead of clicking would have made commands easier to issue instead of the left/right click thing.
Cool game, I love the idea! I would love if bees that are near holes start to repair them by themselves. Solid entry, cheers!
Omg it got intense real fast XD Love the graphics and the music really matches the game. It maybe just me, but I had some trouble seeing the bees and wasps cause their colors are really similar to the background's.
Besides that, I had a lot of fun with the game, and it felt really polished! Great work!
Nice little game) Despite graphics feels not enough contrast to me I had a good time playing it. Good job!
Good gameplay loop, aim game and tower defense. Flight of the bumblebee chiptuned is pretty fun too!
It got hard really fast tho!
well first off the art was great! the sound track fits the game .. kind off?
I wish the controls were easier. it felt a bit off for some reason. maybe selecting bees should be easier?
I am a bit triphonic got really annoyed by wasps entering the hive through holes X)
so its the one run for me...
I dig it! Very swell package, has challenge, tunes, and good art. I love simple controls, and two buttons is as good as it gets.
very cool game with awesome graphics!
It is fun to play, but it is getting too hard in a too short period of time
Wow Dude, This is the best LD game I've played so far. despite the too steep difficulty curve the game is awesome. And using Flight Of The Bumblebee as the soundtrack is just genius. great work.
Cool concept, a mini quasi-RTS survival game! Good choice of music and very nice homemade sprites and animations, the similar colors just make it a little bit hard to read.
For some reason wasps started spawning all at once, which make it impossible to defend the queen, I'm not sure if that's intended.
Nice idea, clean execution, well done :v:
Interesting idea, I like where you went with the theme! Graphics look great and the gameplay was fun, good job!
@nazorus thanks! I belive the wasp spawning is a bug, but we thought we had fixed that...
It is a somewhat difficult game. but entertaining, I really liked overall. Nice job!
The difficulty ramps up pretty fast, but otherwise the game play is solid. The music set the mood perfectly and the art was gorgeous, nice job!
I like this one! Good, clean graphics and audio combined with smooth controls and gameplay. Game is quite challenging too, wish there was a scoring or 'waves' mechanic or some way to track my progress in game. Either way it's a good Ludum Dare entry, nice job!
Ahh thats was a really enjoyable experience :smile: I loved the graphics and, while it took me a while to realize, I thought it was funny that the music in the background was "Flight of the Bumblebee" hehe :joy:
Not much to critisize, except an easier way to select bees and a more visible way to see which bees were doing something and which weren't would have been useful, the difficulty also ramps up pretty fast. Very very nice though!
This game was really well made - the score was behind the honeycombs for me so I wasn't able to see how I did, but I got a sense for it, anyway. The art was lovely and so was the music!
I like the concept of this mini rts game. But I think it might be better, when the hit box of the bee might be a little bit bigger, to make it easier to click on them.
Awesome job with the game, I thoroughly enjoyed this! First of all great job with the art and the music, it creates for a great atmosphere overall. I also loved the title screen with it's SFX and even the animations when you lose the game, really great! Definitely a stressful experience that ramps up in difficulty super fast. I think it would be cool to make holes opening up more obvious, like some flash or animation and sound to draw your attention. It would help to also maybe color code things like wasps vs bees because when they are attacking or moving around each other it gets confusing. It also eventually devolves into just sending all bees to your queen when too many wasps get in, but I suppose thats just how it goes haha Overall it was really good! Really impressed!
Congrats on submitted a completed game and having something playable. Concept is simple and easy to get into. I actually decided to not repair the hive and let some wasps in to keep the game a little more exciting. Something that can be easily fix in the future by maybe allowing me to upgrade my bees to be faster at moving/repairing, stronger fighters, maybe even allowing me restore health to the queen using honey or something like that :D
Nice game pal! I relly liked the artstyle, as also the feeling of it. it starts to make you nervous when you cant do things faster haha
Straightforward mechanic and easy to pick up. I dig the idea - wasps are horrendous. Music was a good fit. The color choice / contrast made it really hard to focus, keep my eyes on the screen, and actually catch holes in the honeycomb. Good job nonetheless!