deBeevery by Kyyrozu
Hello fellow player !
Ever wondered how being a cute bee would be ? Come and hop from flower to flower on a randomly generated map !
* W A S D * Movement
* Space * Hover flight + Hive HUD if close enough
You play as a Queen Bee leading her hive. You must find as many flower as you can and deliver their positions to the hive.

Then an even cuter worker will rush to the flower to harvest its pollen.

With all that pollen you can upgrade your abilities at the hive and explore even more in this gigantic world!

Update : bugfixes!
Your small bees should now be stuck less frequently (hopefully never) while collecting honey. If they are still stuck, I added a button on the flowers in the hive UI that let's you remove flowers from the list of flowers that should be collected. Also corrected few UI related bugs Thanks for you patience. Love :heart: :bee:
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/debeevery |
Ratings
| Overall | 907th | 3.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1083th | 2.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 536th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 867th | 3.591⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 800th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 565th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 740th | 3.357⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
I was so hyped, interesting gameplay, cool and relaxing music fiting quite well with the theme, found my first flower, upgraded my flight speed and then... no more flowers ? Is that me or the world seems empty ? Do I need to fly really far away ?
I wanted my hive to grow !!!
I'm still at work currently but I tried to add my version of the build which seems to have more flowers. We had some last minutes bugs while finishing the game. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Btw, I really like the procedural generation, a few graphical glitches aside. The forest is beautiful. Nice tutorial as well.
Good job to make a voxel world game in a jam :o
~~But sadly, I just downloaded the now-with-less-bug zip, and the world is empty except for one flower. Not at all like the screenshot. And it seems I can't upgrade the number of my worker bees.~~
Nevermind, I was stuck in the tutorial. I didn't understant I needed to press Enter once again.
The game was short, and the carrying capacity doesn't seem to matter.
I like the fact that you only discover the flowers, and the harvesting is automatic.
Very pleasant :)
Unfortunately the game has its cons, I think that controls, hitboxes, camerawork and optimalisation could use a lot of more work for the game to be truly enjoyable.
But overall the game looks good and it is really impressive given the time constraints.
The graphics are great, once again, I really like how the game looks. Although it's a bit plain, the open spaces made it easier to spot flowers. Maybe you could add more stuff later, like those bushes and other small features. Although, it did lag a bit on my pc, so graphics settings would be appreciated.
Although I did enjoy flying around as a bee for the most part, there are points to improve upon in the movement, though. As I upgraded the player speed, it became harder and harder to navigate precisely. I don't think you meant for this to happen, so I suggest that you could either add mouse controls, or add a keybind (something like the shift key) to allow for more precise turning.
The camera started glitching out when I tried doing stuff like barrel rolls. It seems to glitch out when you look either too far up or too far down.
I feel like this could be a fairly big hit if you developed upon it further, I'd love to see more upgrades. Take the following with a grain of salt, but maybe a dash for the player, or some beehive upgrades? Maybe you could have multiple beehives! Some kind of clearly visible upgrades every now and then?
I hope you enjoyed the game jam, and keep up the good work!
Unfortunately we were aware of most of those things but the time constraint was what held us back.
Good luck on your game-dev journey!
I'm happy to try the game again. :)

The animation of the queen's wings was slightly annoying, realistic but too fast.
What technologies did you use?
Other minor bugs (hehe): the camera goes crazy when pointing the bee upwards 90°, and the Maximum Bees upgrade button does nothing in the tutorial section.
I find it very satisfying just watching the workers fly around gathering pollen. I could just fly around the forest for hours.
If you decide to develop this game further (and you absolutely should!), here are a couple ideas I thought about while playing the game.
- Imagine discovering a large field of flowers that, once discovered, would keep the workers busy for a long time while I go exploring more.
- I'd like my movement to come to a stop while the hive menu is visible. It would be nice to be able to toggle "hive mode" on and off instead of having to hold the spacebar while I interact with the menu.
- The camera gimbaling is a bit frustrating, but it can be easily avoided. However, I still get stuck every once in a while. It mostly happens when I'm too close to the ground. Maybe limiting the vertical movement to some number of units above the terrain would do the trick.
Keep up the good work. I look forward to see more games from you in future jams!