Bee, leave it or knot

hanra 2020-10-05 08:43

Question for anyone reading this: should I (if allowed) tweak a variable (the number of bees needed to get to the next screen) just to make the game easier to review?

vollfeiw 2020-10-05 08:55

Hey, nice little game you have here ! You could had have the classic teleportation when going out of screen if you wanted to go full "stuck in a loop" :P

For your question, no, feature are not allowed, only some bugs fixes are. Somehow, you can realease a second version, and give a link to that "No rating" version, as long as you keep your REAL entry, even if some would consider that cheating.

Sadly, balancing is part of game development, so yeah, it's about fairness.

One thing you can do when working with levels is to put a button to load next / previous level. On a real game, it's bad, but in a game jam, that allow people to try out more without having to deal with every level.

hanra 2020-10-05 08:57

Thanks for that, and fair enough should have picked that up in playtesting. Such is life :)

linus-lindberg 2020-10-05 20:03

Played so many times, and really got sucked into the gameplay, but I still couldn't beat level one! As you said the 60 bees are a bit steep for level 1. I'll have to come back and play more later, because I really liked the game! the round shape of the map was a fun twist on the snake gameplay!

a4x8e6 2020-10-06 22:14

Tried a few times but the 60 bees is a bit tricky to get past the first level! Liked the idea though :)

noah-kuhn 2020-10-07 22:47

This was a fun idea, and it was well executed! Good job :smile:

wendel-scardua 2020-10-08 18:11

Maybe the issue isn't much that 60 bees are too much, but that we lose all of them on the smallest mistake.

I liked the pun in the game name, sometimes my game jam ideas come from puns :)

drprettypatty 2020-10-08 23:33

5 stars on marketing, I was really engaged through the description and then laughed when I realized it was just snake haha. Not too bad considering your challenges, and I didn't see any bugs (except for the intended ones). Got a great humor score from me :)

hanra 2020-10-09 16:45

That's a cool suggestion Wendel, maybe backing up a number of bees, losing those in the process, would make a long run recoverable

jd557 2020-10-10 08:26

As others said, 60 bees on the first level was a big mistake :(

I really wanted to see the other levels with enemy bees, but it's taking me way too long to get past the first level... and it's really frustrating to have to try again from the start if you mess up.

I think you should release a "no rating" version with some slightly tweaks. Even if it doesn't help your rating, it's nice to let people see what your full vision for the game was :)

hanra 2020-10-11 08:31

Hey @jd557, I'll definitely be releasing a tweaked version after the competition with the goal set a lot lower, I'm thinking just 10 so people can get all the way through, but there's no enemy bees, just increasingly difficult maps.

I kind of think even a no-rating version while the ratings are going on would be unfair.. and I live in hope that someone manages to get to level 2 one day (it doesn't reset to level 1 when you die on level 2 at least)

gettingrekt 2020-10-13 19:54

The game mechanics were good enough for me to play through level 1 but holy moley that was alot of time playing snake! The biggest improvement for me would have been to not being able to run into yourself by doing a quit 180 turn (and the level requirements was too steep). However, it was a really good game and the levels seemed to be getting more and more interesting.

fadrikalexander 2020-10-16 06:53

it's a good snake game but you missed the main "looping" mechanic of snake games when you exit the screen it loops to the other side. The game is fun, the flowers spawning in the corner are nearly impossible to get with how fast the game is going, and no bugs found.

hanra 2020-11-24 23:32

If anyone is still interested: I've released a tweaked version with the goals set lower and bees being kept on death.