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Bees Executable

[raw] LD12MiniLD 10. Jul 2008 · 13:06 UTC · 28 days before compo start by keeyai · 0

Edited: Added XP version

Ok, after some great no-brainer advice I hadn’t even thought of, I downgraded my openGL and easily made the executable.

You can grab it here for Vista
or
Here for XP

As in the previous post – the idea seems fun to me, but the product just doesn’t do it enough. Please have a play through and give me your comments and advice.

One thing I’m sure it needs is a targeting system for the bees. For some reason I took this out mid-development… It was probably before the humans would flee from the bees stinging them. Anyway, now its a pain in the ass to follow humans around, so I’ll be adding a way for the bees to track their targets.

Another thing to adjust is the scrolling. I think I’ll increase the area on the edges where scrolling starts, but make the distance you pass over it scale the scrolling. In other words, if you are fairly close to the side you won’t scroll as fast as right at the side. Thoughts?

Tags: exe

Comments

11. Jul 2008 · 01:54 UTC
I get “The procedure entry point _except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll”.
11. Jul 2008 · 17:21 UTC
Wow. No, I’m sure it is something I’ve done wrong.
11. Jul 2008 · 19:44 UTC
Ok, it should (might) work now.
11. Jul 2008 · 22:57 UTC
eheheheh.
12. Jul 2008 · 15:59 UTC
Holy hell. Somehow I messed up my setup.py and left out image files that aren’t pngs… No idea how this happened because I’m SURE I tested to see if it ran on the xp machine I built it on…
Detox
13. Jul 2008 · 10:19 UTC
works for me now in XP, pretty interesting concept
14. Jul 2008 · 05:29 UTC
At least it is working 😀 Now, like the post says, help me pinpoint what is making it un-fun and give some suggestions on where to improve. Like you said, the concept is pretty interesting – however, there seems to be a lot getting in the way.
14. Jul 2008 · 11:07 UTC
Well, I only played for a few minutes, but I’ve got a few suggestions:
Detox
14. Jul 2008 · 12:09 UTC
Possibly add some humans with bee-killer spraycans to encourage moving or building new hives? I didn’t play long enough to see if they were in there.
15. Jul 2008 · 18:08 UTC
@destroysound: thats a good idea. The bees definitely need some limiting factors — maybe introduce flowers so they have to actually make the honey… Good input – thanks!