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All About That Buzz

By conradoclark

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1354.0737
Fun824.0837
Innovation1853.8437
Theme4724.0137
Graphics2084.2537
Audio1763.9235
Humor1523.8735
Mood2523.9236

Comments

mallok-studio 2023-05-02 04:51

Love it!

valyn-tyler 2023-05-02 16:01

The graphics and sound are awesome! The game feels very polished. Clearly high effort. Good job!

joao-mazzarolo 2023-05-02 16:02

Job job! The art is really good!

thegameoverguy 2023-05-02 16:03

This is great! Clearly a lot of effort was put into this for the jam! Keep it up, I can't wait to play it on full release :)

hoshinu 2023-05-02 16:05

This is AWESOME for being made in only 3 days! The art and sound are both great!

space-games 2023-05-02 16:05

I love how well you rocked this art style! Nice job!

igor-minenko 2023-05-02 16:06

wow, incredible, I cant belive you did this game alone, such a good game, well done!

bopohx 2023-05-02 16:10

loock like oldschool game from Dendy or Sega! like it! cool idea! go on!

polinnich 2023-05-02 16:10

one of the best i've seen today! love the art, sound and humor! the game mechanics are also great! good luck with your next projects:)

codexzier 2023-05-02 16:10

I like the gameplay!

quabmara 2023-05-02 16:11

I loved the idea with the bees. And incredible job on doing it all alone!

trassh 2023-05-02 16:18

Really cool game and idea! The sound effects got really overlapping when there were a lot of enemies in the room also the boss felt a bit too fast. I really loved the jokes and dialogues, great entry!

phyrocast 2023-05-02 16:20

Very fun game! I only managed to beat it by finding a glitch to get where the last enemy couldn't get to me, but it was good!

drestin 2023-05-03 20:55

Another bee game! I love the humour and setting. The gameplay is little more than avoiding being hit. I struggled against the boss, going in circles but getting hit nonetheless.

Good job for 3 days, though!

riley9 2023-05-03 21:47

Cool! I love the flowers and also how everything is drawn =D the music is nice too and everything feels very weird but friendly at the same time

lyra-thecat 2023-05-04 09:16

Very fun to play, loved the auto shoot system. good job

mitchell-j 2023-05-04 15:41

Fun! Very satisfying gameplay loop.

ping78 2023-05-04 16:18

Beeutiful game. Love the humor. Boss is unbeelievably hard.

Good job

mercilesscult 2023-05-04 20:21

Blown away by the amout of work you managed to do alone in only 3 days! Loved everything about the game, you get a perfect score from me, congrats!

conradoclark 2023-05-05 12:09

Thank you all so much for playing and commenting so far!

I was originally planning a dodge mechanic and a skill tree as well, but oh boy, this was too much already haha

I was also undecided about what to do with the boss: since the main character stats were random, there is a non-zero chance that you can end up with lots of defense and AoE and in this case the boss is definitely going to be harder. Farming can alleviate that but perhaps the dodge mechanic would be the silver bullet to close this design gap hehe

Either way, I'm super happy with the final product, and I'm glad people are enjoying it as well. Thanks! You made my daisy :upside_down:

local-minimum 2023-05-05 15:57

Cool entry. I don't know if I missed anything but upon pollinating the 3 flowers in the cave I wasn't quite sure what next to do. Well written and fun to play. There were some glitches with loot not being interactable if, e.g. if it ended up too far down on the screen and such and was unsure if there was any way to know or decide how picking up skills would replace which existing and so on.

conradoclark 2023-05-05 17:48

@local-minimum Killing the "boss" spawns the big flower which has the "congrats you finished it" line and all that hehe

I planned to make it more evident that it was a boss (and planned to close the room automatically, play another song, etc) but I was out of thyme.

Thanks for playing!

anthony-katona 2023-05-06 14:21

Super fun! Had a bit of that personal passion feel like Undertale

yuriscat 2023-05-06 15:08

This game has great art and completeness! It's really impressive that one person can accomplish all of this. While playing, I encountered two problems: one is that the pp and boxes can fall outside of the screen and cannot be collected, and the other is that when entering a walled room for the second time, it has infinite health. Overall, it's a great game, and I look forward to future updates!

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yasmeen 2023-05-06 15:55

Great work, very impressive considering you made this alone! I liked the idle animation of the bee, and the instructions on the carpet in the intro area were a smart idea. With the combat it would be nice in the future to add some other options other than running away while the auto-shoot activates. For example maybe you have a bar you can fill that when activated gives you temporary invincibility? But overall amazing effort!

stephanie-hansen 2023-05-06 23:12

Love this! Great puns. The attacking system is interesting and felt pretty cool. Sometimes the pollen would drop too close to the bottom bar with all of your stats and I was unable to pick it up.

Awesome game; great work!

lisek-gagatek 2023-05-07 10:17

The game is very good. Dialogs are funny. However I've found it too grindy. I've achieved lvl 11, but got no spd upgrades, so the boss was impossible for me. I managed to kill him by cheesing and hiding behind the chests and making the boss stuck. The game would also lag a bit whenever enemy was killed.

interpixel 2023-05-18 17:35

boss arena was too small so it was hard to avoid taking damage and there seemed to be no higher level than 11. apart from those gripes i would say this is a perfect submission, All the pieces are there and it has originality and polish.