You control the bear with the arrow keys. Look for the tree with the hive. Get to it and you engage in a battle to avoid the bees and to get the sweet honey. If you get pushed out, then you have to find another tree. The more honey the bear has, the happier the bear is. Can you make the bear feel happy?
Thanks to itch.io for the hosting. This is my first time creating a HTML5/WebGL game. I used Pyxel Edit, Phaser and Brackets to do most of the work. There wasn't enough time to implement sound or include the features I wanted. The original inspiration was to make an action RPG which is why the world wraps around and there is an unused 'town' area.
*I adjusted the difficulty a bit. The bees are randomly placed between a set of a y-values. So there will be situations where it's just a wall of bees. It may take a few tries to get a run without a wall of bees.
**For those having trouble, always keep walking even if the bees are pushing. Try to weave around the bees by determining the path you need to follow while the bees are coming. There is a spot where your hit box is smaller along the top (You still can get pushed here). Keep practicing, it's hard at first, but you'll get used to it.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 66% |
| #260 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.46 |
| #352 | Theme(Jam) | 3.70 |
| #435 | Humor(Jam) | 2.70 |
| #776 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.67 |
| #800 | Fun(Jam) | 2.65 |
| #816 | Overall(Jam) | 2.81 |
Comments
Adorable visuals. But I feel like some of the levels were impossible because of the way the bees were organised. Either way, quite fun!
I like the idea! It took me a minute to realize what was going on, but I really like the screen setup with the zoom-in! Only thing I'd suggest is to ease up on the bees to make it a little more possible to navigate them. If the mechanic is supposed to be 100% timing, I'd take away the illusion that you can navigate through the bees at all. I was able to avoid them a couple times, but for the most part if I didn't time it correctly, the bees unceremoniously ejected me, and there was no hope of navigating through them.
All in though, well done!
Congratulations on your first LD game! This is a very cool concept, I just wish it had some audio - it's difficult to figure out what's going on sometimes. It's also pretty hard, I think gradually increasing the number of bees would have been better. Good job, keep it up!
Congratulations! It's fun, I made the bear happy. Nice graphics, too!
Heh congratulation for first game for ludum dare :) if you need music contact me skype: Domicuc .. cute game x)
also check my project if you have some time x)
Great concept - wasn't sure exactly what to do though
++ For using Phaser :)
The concept is original. I found it very hard though, I could not get past the bees.
Those bees are impossible to pass!
how did you host this from itch.io? i hosted there but i cant get it to load on LD
Took me 10 attempts to get all the honey)
Love the concept, very original!
So frustrating! I want the honey! My strategy was just to wait by one tree, and then bolt for the honey as soon as I could. I got 100 oz in 4 tries.
This game is weeeeird! I really love it, such a unique design!
I love the concept, fits the theme perfectly. Too bad there's not much gameplay implemented.
The mechanic is nice, but I think it's a bit too hard. Walking around chasing the moving hive is a bit pointless though.
enjoyed the game
at first bees were pretty hard but once with enough practice it gets manageable :D
especially liked the concept, that you can take a shortcut through the inner 4x3 tiles.
graphics are sweet :D as is the idea and the game is fun as well. i like
Very nice concept. I like the zoom in when you actually get near the honey. The difficulty seemed somewhat unfair at times, as I was constantly forced out by the bees with no visible path to get to the honey. Additionally, I couldn't find a way to get to the 'buy' or 'heal' stands and didn't find any directions of how to get there. The bear was very cute. Overall, it was a very nice first game that fit the theme very well.
I think the game would benefit a lot from hitboxes(both yours and from the bees) being smaller, even if more bees where needed to balance it out.
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Very unique game, but not much to do it seems. I guess you had planned for powerups and healing but didn't get around to do it? Still intriguing concept, maybe you'll work more on this, post-LD :)