Bees Bears Buzz by CowShark

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made by CowShark for LD32 (JAM)
Controls:
Left Stick / WASD: Movement
Left Mouse / Joystick Button 0: Roll pots / Build
Right Mouse / Joystick Button 1: Cycle between build items and pot rolling


About Game:
You are a bee keeping bear who intends to keep his honey safe from an encroaching multitude of other bears. Build beehives to shoot bees at them, and trees to block their way.

Game Mechanics You May Want to Know:
Protect your honey pot from enemy bears. As they attack it, you'll lose honey off the meter on the left side of the screen.

Everything you build takes a queen bee as a resource. Collect queen bees!

Pots don't do much damage. If you want to take out bears, beehives are where it's at. Pots can damage trees and beehives the same way other bears do.

Regular size enemy bears will fight anything, even each other.

Collect honey to score points. Collecting lots of honey can restore your honey meter.

Contributors -
Programming/Rotating Things - David Fonner
Art - Amy Saunders
Music - Seth Renshaw

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.61 199
Audio(Jam) 3.43 209
Fun(Jam) 3.34 298
Graphics(Jam) 3.85 230
Humor(Jam) 3.36 271
Innovation(Jam) 3.40 305
Mood(Jam) 3.39 288
Theme(Jam) 3.83 170

Feedback

CamRFWhite
21. Apr 2015 · 01:59 UTC
Awesome! I liked being able to build and attack. I think adding some sort of level design would make the fun factor really increase. Being able to set up encounter areas and choke points would overall help streamline the experience and create variety. Great job though!
Harley77
21. Apr 2015 · 02:01 UTC
Here I am thinking I had the only game that combined bears and bees. Great job, yours is waay better.
Snicklodocus
21. Apr 2015 · 02:03 UTC
Cute graphics and I liked the music! Fun little tower defense-esque game. One complaint: it took me a while to figure out what the "fire" button is at the beginning. Good job!
Mateus Culpo
21. Apr 2015 · 02:52 UTC
Funny Game,Very good, thank you for sharing
jprogman
21. Apr 2015 · 02:57 UTC
I really like the artwork and audio -- especially the audio since I can tell you did the bear voices heh.
However, the combat is very limited as I can only shoot left and right, not up and down. Which made of getting rid of bears harder when they're blocked by the left or right sides.
Teesquared
21. Apr 2015 · 03:00 UTC
Very nice take on the theme and great all around. Really fun and complete game. Played great in Firefox too. You can't do any beetter :)
🎤 CowShark
21. Apr 2015 · 03:15 UTC
For a lot of criticisms I would offer the blanket excuse, "If I had more time..."
seraphki
21. Apr 2015 · 04:57 UTC
Art is adorable, sounds are adorable.
Hoard of bears is scary.
Nicely done =3
TailyILoveYou
21. Apr 2015 · 04:57 UTC
I love the tower defence-style game play, though I find the difficulty ramps up pretty quickly :P Nice game!
roving-stone
21. Apr 2015 · 05:10 UTC
This is a great little game. I love the bear walking animation. So much attitude haha.
Tork
21. Apr 2015 · 05:11 UTC
Got to lvl 10. Pretty fun. Damn rats they stole my tasty cheese :(
gamedevBear
21. Apr 2015 · 05:13 UTC
Bears! :D
Art and sound effects are great. Gameplay would be more fun with map variation and being able to place up/down.
I found surrounding the honey pot with as many beehives as possible to be very effective.
Buko-Studios
21. Apr 2015 · 05:15 UTC
love this game! the graphics and concept is sooo cool! its a little bit tricky to switch modes using the rmb. but i had fun anyway.
jshaffer94247
21. Apr 2015 · 05:16 UTC
Some fun ideas, but with everything coming at me right away it was a bit overwhelming. So when you get that "more time"... :) I agree, it needs levels.
Tork
21. Apr 2015 · 05:18 UTC
My browser went crazy and posted my previous comment here, srry. This was pretty fun and difficult!. I really liked it, those bears were though!
🎤 CowShark
21. Apr 2015 · 05:23 UTC
I agree that having different levels would be probably a cool thing if I do another version of this.
pi_pi3
21. Apr 2015 · 05:37 UTC
I like it. I lost pretty quickly though. But it is fun to play.
Pix3M
21. Apr 2015 · 05:43 UTC
I might be just tired from the jam, the difficulty curve as it is doesn't give me enough time to figure out the ins and outs of this game, and I was doing pretty badly

Side note: I also for some reason confused the grass being solid walls since there's a sharp contrast between the grass and the dirt path
Shugor
21. Apr 2015 · 12:59 UTC
This is a pretty fun game for its size. Being able to place things however you want and move around the honey gives you a lot of options, although it can get a bit difficult to protect the honey if you lock yourself outside a ring of trees. If there's one thing I would suggest apart from adding more levels, being able to place objects above or below yourself would be pretty helpful. Great job overall~
handkor
21. Apr 2015 · 14:43 UTC
Nice beekeeper suit.
HotBoxGames
21. Apr 2015 · 21:38 UTC
awesome!
cbear_wallis
21. Apr 2015 · 23:53 UTC
I like the bears cx and the building mechanic was really sweet.
smikulcik
21. Apr 2015 · 23:57 UTC
Great idea. Pretty fun.
emmelineprufrock
22. Apr 2015 · 00:00 UTC
Interesting! Really liked the graphics.
Horsed
22. Apr 2015 · 07:33 UTC
The sprites look awesome! I like how the game becomes pretty chaotic after some time. It feels like there is much going an and it really challenges my multitasking. Good job.
sorlok
22. Apr 2015 · 12:18 UTC
Really well done, and fun! I loved the game over screen. :D
RockhopperGames
22. Apr 2015 · 15:20 UTC
A nice little twist on the tower defense formula! It's a shame you can't attack up or down though, considering how far you can attack otherwise!
rectangular Tim
22. Apr 2015 · 15:23 UTC
I got OVER 9000!!! points just by spamming beehives everywhere. The graphics are very nice.
Techblogogy
23. Apr 2015 · 19:22 UTC
Nicely executed game. Great job!
anokta
26. Apr 2015 · 15:44 UTC
hahaha awesome soundfx! :)
Shivur
28. Apr 2015 · 03:37 UTC
Nice graphics and gameplay.
DarkGrisen
01. May 2015 · 19:24 UTC
I laughed when I played this game :)
mockthebear
01. May 2015 · 19:25 UTC
Awesome! i love games that you have to defend something, and move the thing that you have to defend was something!
but you can only shot to sides was bad XP
ruerob
10. May 2015 · 14:58 UTC
I like your game! It was fun to play but a little bit difficult, too. I like the character design and the objects! It was a little bit hard because I can't shoot vertical. Nice game!
sP0CkEr2
11. May 2015 · 04:27 UTC
that was really fun - really interesting mechanice that works well - great job
longshorts
11. May 2015 · 18:54 UTC
Really like the graphics, took me a bit long to figure out the point of trees. But yeah it was an enjoyable little game :)