cute game, it matches the theme, the charachters are cute, and i just like the game. its very fun!

Thank you for playing! Good luck with your game-making!

love the collborative artistic vibes

impressed by the custom engine, I've done some jams in an engine of my own and it's always nice to see others who do too.

I absolutely love the visuals in this game--the glowing lines are so pleasant to look at!

Fun optimization puzzle, too... traveling salesbee problem. Super interesting and unique take on the theme... nicely done!

1m39 ended up my best run, but I could probably (maybe?) improve if I tooled at it a few more runs

Nice job! I love games with high scores!

Gorgeous visuals, very pleasing. I'll have to try your game engine sometime!

It looks nice and I like the theme quite a bit. Sometimes I couldn't choose a new bee to give directions to and just gave previous bee a new path which made things little bit frustrating. Overall left me with a positive feeling! :)

Reminds me of the old airplane control tower mobile games so I liked it a lot. I would have liked it a bit more hectic with faster bees for more multitasking when planning their movement

An interesting game with a cute design, it's really cool that there is a rating system that motivates you to play again.

Very nice little game. Love the simple design and the randomized gameplay. Couldnt stop playing till i was at least third place :D bzzzzzz

just very nicе. I like that you even have a personal website and a leaderboard, and I'm in third place!)

A fun little moody collection game. Really enjoyed it. Love that there is a leaderboard too. Graphics and Audio were nice. Great work!

Whoa, incredibly cool idea. I like how the leaderboard keeps you coming back for another go, to see if you can do better next time.

having a leaderboard makes this so addicting, very well done

Really cool that you made it in your own engine! It was an interesting idea playing around with the efficiency of the paths. I think if anything I'd like to see the bees move a little faster.

Simple but fun

Thanks for uploading! This game was a little addicting! Having a leaderboard really stoked my competitive fire and kept me trying for better and better times, and the game is short and sweet enough to make it feel worth replaying several times over. There's a part of me that wishes the hitboxes were a little more forgiving though - there were a couple times I felt like I drew over a piece of pollen, only to look back and see it all by its lonesome with all my bees flying away. The visuals were simple, but very effective with the soft glowing, and the music was a bop. Looking forward to seeing what else you can make with your custom engine!

Excellent Game. Just short enough to warrant playing multiple times to chase that high score and improve your strategy. Sometimes it feels a bit unlucky with the flower spawns, but I guess that's just the nature of random gen. I really enjoy the play pattern of quickly making slap dash patterns for the bees at first with quick surveil of the map and then taking the time to do it more efficiently as they start moving.

That's a surprisingly great entry! At first I thought it was a well punt together meditative experience but then you start to want to optimize, change routes mid-plan, try not to make bees paths overlap... I ended up playing a lot more than I had anticipated. Really great job!

so cute bees!!!

With such a short playtime I did find myself having quite a few attempts at a high score, though i'd usually miss 1 pollen and ruin the run's chances 😔
Lovely little game, will be taking a closer look at Easel in future

I like how relaxing it is. I also like that there's a certain strategy to getting the most pollen out of the bees' paths.

Lovely little game! Fun interpretation of the theme and cool that you've made it in your own engine as well :robot:

Cute, cozy and slow-paced. Leaderboard was a good idea indeed!

Lovely game. Highscore is a great way to increase the replay value.

Very enjoable game reminding me of our LDJam 56 entry.

Very nice experience. Simple idea, but well executed and fits the theme well.

Very nice visuals and animations! Simple yet complex gameplay, and even more with the online competition feature :)

A very interesting game, cute designed.

I love pathfinding mechanics, so this is a really cool simulation. I love the presentation of the data as well, to find an optimized pollen route is I think really cool.

Also the visuals are super appropriate and well placed.

Great entry!

I really like how good the line drawing feels! I think it's the kind of feature that could easily end up janky, but the way it splits into segments and snaps to points really makes a difference. I enjoyed the game in general, although at first I thought it's going to have multiple, puzzle-ish levels instead of a single high-score level. The speed of the game was appropriate for the most part, although it did drag a bit in the final 20% sometimes, if I missed some pollen. Pretty good job overall. Also, it's quite impressive that you have your own engine and language.

Absolutely loved everything about this game. My favorite so far!

Interesting game. Simple yet surprisingly challenging.
I'd have loved some audio feedback on pickups, but I like the soundtrack - nice and vibey, and well-mixed. lovely warm pads and very chill kick! Does a lot to set the tone of the game
well done!

This was a great game. Dividing attention between the different things (the small scale questions of which order to visit flowers, and the larger questions of which regions of flowers can / should each bee visit) is tricky but fun.


It would be interesting to know what the optimal score for an average map is; I assume it's much better than anyone's achieved.

@poboy yes I've been making Easel (my engine) for 3 years now and would love more people to try it!

@trevor-mae your favourite so far! That's high praise, thank you!

@breadstick "travelling salesbee problem" haha yes! I think light and glowing always makes games look really good so it's one of the things I made sure to build into Easel when I was making it.

@red @kinnerk @vpro @lazarus-richardson @pimeko @jpgfg @tesseract yes I love how the optimization of paths is an infinitely deep problem yet looks so simple!

@sirred interesting comparison to the airplane control games!

@mrbamboo @csuth17 @mrv @ordineu @zactyl @derek-glennon @colouredshoes @f2 @tiwe-me-ruu yes I love leaderboards because it means you can asynchronously interact with other humans, and I think that adds another layer of meaning to the game!

@finnreimann haha well done but I think someone else has probably taken your 3rd place by now!

@aldenwitt that's really nice hearing this from someone who understands music. I think music is vitally important to games and sometimes with slow-paced games like this it makes the whole game. I actually only had 12 hours to make this game because I started really late, and the whole time I was worried I would run out of time to do the music, but turns out I had a few hours at the end of the day for it, which I'm glad for.

@hexstart yes I wanted to have just a little bit of snapping but not too much because bees are organic and freeform and can go anywhere and I wanted it to feel that way!

@juicybrucey haha yes it's all about not missing even 1 pollen

@anciententity well done on making your own engine, that's always hard!

@nallekari @birofio @humnyn @zexurge @ehtd @zelew @xparker @jorbits @ciphereo thanks for playing and good luck with your game-making and your entries!

Simple gameloop but still very catching. Made it 2nd place yay

Such a nice and chill game! I really loved how the path snaps to the points when you're drawing it, and the path's shader is gorgeous. The music is great too and never lets you get bored. Excellent work!

Not much to say on the gameplay, very simple and to the point. Graphics and audio fit the game nicely, and the only thing that I noted was the fact there was no highlight on the selected bee. Drew quite a few weird paths because sometimes the selecting just didn't work.

Really like the chill vibe. A very unique take on the theme! I like it a lot!

Nice pollen collection game! It could be expanded with twists but this will do for the jam.

Nice pollen collection game! It could be expanded with twists but this will do for the jam.

Such a fine game. The looks is extremely simple, yet extremely effective. The leaderboard is the bullseye, it made me realize 'huh, so this mechanic can be optimized that far?' And I tried more :) (failing miserably, I will not be queen bee :smile:)

It's a very fun game. I like the fact that you made a one-time game, but adding a leaderboard made me play the game three times. This is a very good way to keep players engaged.

Really good game! It’s both simple and challenging, especially seeing the high scores and trying to beat them! And well polished as well, well done!

It's impressive how such a simple game concept can Bee so much fun. Very polished, simple, and brilliant!