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Yeah at the beginning of the game you have only a little bit of wax and really need to spend it on a nursery, worker training, and wax production or else you will end up soft locking yourself on being able to progress. After that the game opens up and you have more freedom to play your way. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1090710,"author_name":"LDJam user 233347","author_uid":"233347","epoch":1728395252,"text":"I liked it quite a bit though it's very easy to deadlock it seems. Tried a few times but didn't get very far.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1096822,"author_name":"ArenAvgust","author_uid":"arenavgust","epoch":1728448508,"text":"Models is nice! Interesting game but in start i dont understand what i need to do. So , game is fun and interesting","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1096949,"author_name":"voxar","author_uid":"voxar","epoch":1728450494,"text":"Hey I had no idea I was into bee keeping! \nI enjoyed this a lot! With a bit of polish on controls like drag selection, a way to manage idle workers (they kinda disappear into empty trees), and a bit more complexity to the \"hive production factory building\" part I would get super hooked on this! \n\nI got to hive 2 but was put off by having to \"start over\" with buildings. I think the old hive was still producing things but I could not get into it anymore which made me feel like I had lost my progress. Would have liked an option to expand the starter hive and instead of getting the popup to move to the next hive, and alos having to invade and take it over new hives with soldiers. I'm guessing that was the plan but cut due to time constraints :)\n\nA bug I encounter a lot is that the selection marker is not always shown, otherwise runs smooth for me in Safari on an intel mac mini.\n\nOh tip for new players: you need to start with a wax factory, a nursery and a worker bee training facility to get anywhere at all. Should probably have been the starting condition in the beginner hive :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1097034,"author_name":"Gametrodon","author_uid":"gametrodon","epoch":1728451720,"text":"It feels like you have a really cool structure here, but I found it quite frustrating that I had to restart each time I built the wrong thing. I know that there is a tutorial, but it doesnt' feel like there is much point if you have to make the same few starting buildings, or nothing works. \n\nI also could never get soldier production to work. Not sure why that was the case, but even with every building type created, I never got a single soldier bee. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1098825,"author_name":"LDJam user 236256","author_uid":"236256","epoch":1728476318,"text":"@voxar thanks for playing and the feedback. The old hive is still producing everything it was, you just cant view it. You're right that time was a huge issue this jam for us and some things had been left behind, it was our first go at godot (previously we used unity for jams) and not knowing how to do things in godot. You mentioned drag selection, that was the plan but after 3 hours of not being able to get it to work we had to move on. Similarly you may have noticed that scout bees are entirely useless, originally there would have been a fog of war and scouts could uncover the map for you. \n\n@gametrodon there is an in game tutorial to teach you how to play and guides you to creating the first three buildings and first two bees. We could have just started you with those buildings, but then we'd lose the chance to teach the players in game how to play. It was the best idea we had for the beginning. I'm not sure why you had issues with the soldiers, perhaps you never created a second nursery? Could be that the worker production was taking up all the eggs and none left over for soldiers if you didn't. 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Good job! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1108690,"author_name":"SuperTurtle","author_uid":"superturtle","epoch":1728709845,"text":"Very fun being able to expand so lucratively fast! I managed to softlock myself on the first playthrough but once I understood what I was doing it was fine. Could have made the wasps slightly more agressive\/threatening. I like how cute the bees themselves are, and the music was on point for the mood of the game. Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1111730,"author_name":"CodeChomper","author_uid":"codechomper","epoch":1728845678,"text":"I like how you matched the theme with beings able to go outside and inside the hive. It really gives the feel that you are managing a hive so great work there. Thanks for a fun entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1113455,"author_name":"LDJam user 216538","author_uid":"216538","epoch":1728960279,"text":"Fun but as someone mentioned, if you make bad decisions in your first go there does not seem to be a way to continue.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1113586,"author_name":"Exa","author_uid":"exa","epoch":1728975798,"text":"Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1113951,"author_name":"Slava Besckaravainii","author_uid":"slava-besckaravainii","epoch":1729004725,"text":"Pretty good game, had to restart because i ran out of wax, good mechanics, 5 stars","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1114011,"author_name":"Prunus Padis","author_uid":"prunus-padis","epoch":1729007503,"text":"Really nice and complex idea for the jam game. Since RTS is kinda complex and hard genre and some small things missing really lower the experience easily. I can really see the goal you were striving and the base is there. I expect you had ideas for more complex building with adjency bonuses etc since the hexagonal hive structure really allows that.\n\nAs its current form its little annoying to play with bunch of clicking and no way to delete buildings? The combat mechanic is little vague could i even try to kill the bird or is it just there to be tried to be avoided?\n\nYou have alot of nice things that make the game more clear but as its so complex there is always something missing but as i played more I kinda started to understand it more and hows it should be working. Missing the drag select kinda bumbed me out at start but then realizing that optimal start is to spread out the workers and not spam them into single flower helped a lot :D.\n\nToo bad i didnt get to see the large hive since my camera bugged or something at middle hive phase and i could only see brown when outside :(\n\nThe grahpics are nice and expecially the buildigns really have style!\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117037,"author_name":"Pachino55","author_uid":"pachino55","epoch":1729387087,"text":"Such an interesting idea, so cool!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1119389,"author_name":"Pimping","author_uid":"pimping","epoch":1729720265,"text":"Great game, nice matching with theme, keep going","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1120748,"author_name":"Ategon","author_uid":"ategon","epoch":1729892464,"text":"Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod of the stream (with a chapter for your game)\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/7Yi2kg4OiTU","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld56\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/trusty2.itch.io\/its-a-bees-world","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/smanninggit\/ldjam56game","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"94731","g_author":"1121278","g_event":"LD56","g_eventkey":"115","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"443480","g_title":"It's A Bees World","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"878","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"395258","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"395258","n_urlkey":"443480","n_parent":"395186","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/56\/its-a-bees-world","n_slug":"its-a-bees-world","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"121278","n_created":"1724863762","n_modified":"1779389723","n_version":"1265653","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD56","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":7,"author":121278,"body":"![insidetut.png](\/\/\/raw\/eb9\/d1\/z\/673ad.png)\n![outsidetut.png](\/\/\/raw\/eb9\/d1\/z\/673b0.png)\n\n# It's a Bee's World\n\n Gather pollen. 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