Beeat by Cambrian_Man

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made by Cambrian_Man for LD26 (COMPO)
You are a bee in a garden. Collect pollen, avoid potatoes and roots and try to get a high score.

Controls

Click to move quickly to a spot.
Swipe to gather pollen.
Scribble to charge through potatoes.

You will move to where you release the mouse button.

Known Bugs

Sometimes the pollen refuses to collide.

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1411
Overall 3.00 721
Audio 2.81 487
Fun 2.67 843
Graphics 3.19 443
Humor 2.25 529
Innovation 3.00 650
Mood 2.77 663
Theme 2.93 1075

Feedback

Thein
29. Apr 2013 · 19:22 UTC
Quite a fun little game! I liked the controls, they would be perfect for a touchscreen. I feel like the bee's hitbox should be a little smaller though.
s0ulcrusher
02. May 2013 · 07:54 UTC
Great style and the swipe mechanic is cool. I agree with Thein though, there were a few times I died when there was nothing visually colliding with the bee.
Waynetron
05. May 2013 · 02:28 UTC
Would suit a touch screen well.
lightnarcissus
05. May 2013 · 03:00 UTC
Colourful graphics that still go well in line with the theme and a pretty fun game on top of that. I'd say you did a swell job making this in 2 days.
Verrazano
05. May 2013 · 03:38 UTC
First off awesome music, with the pulsing sun and cool art style however, I felt like the art style was a little bit a part of what made me not like it at first* I couldn't tell the contrast between the blue thingies and the potatoes. I didn't see the potatoes for a really long time and I was wondering why I kept dying. Once I could see the potatoes it was a lot more fun, but I focused way more on dodging everything than collecting pollen I think I got like ~800 score. good job.
@SamPotasz
06. May 2013 · 22:58 UTC
I LOVED the look of this game! I think I'd prefer it w/keyboard controls and nix the potato scribbles :)
MinionStudios
09. May 2013 · 16:26 UTC
Fun and really hard. the colors confuse me, it takes a while to see the green leafs.
HelkeGames
10. May 2013 · 18:28 UTC
Fun little game, well done!
Martin_Monosys
10. May 2013 · 18:31 UTC
Cool graphics, nice minimal touch, good music. But the controls make the game quite hard, at least when using a mouse... :)
Sebastian
11. May 2013 · 09:39 UTC
Took me a little while to properly get what was going on, but after that I really enjoyed it. The collisions are accurate, but I sometimes felt like a bit of leniency might have been nice. Only managed to get a score of around 2700 in the end (I keep dashing into the leaves when I'm charging a nearby potato lol). Tough little game :)
Kvisle
11. May 2013 · 11:27 UTC
Thanks for creating the standalone versions so I could try it!

This is very hard, and it took me a few attempts to figure out what ended the game and what were good things to hit. I don't think any of my attempts lasted more than 30 seconds.

I noticed that if I held down the mouse, you could see a trailing line - but my bee/wasp/thing would only fly directly to the end of it; Having it follow the trail could be a cool mechanic to add when flying through the more complicated areas.

I like the music and the graphics a lot.
Xanjos
12. May 2013 · 19:32 UTC
Controls were pretty nice and the overall gameplay is quite good. Would definitely suit mobile platforms a lot.
Zccc
12. May 2013 · 21:57 UTC
The mouse tracking is very misleading to the controls! I loved the happy music and the vibrant colored graphics, but I died too easily!
Mesene
12. May 2013 · 22:04 UTC
Nice graphics, needs some balance, but its a nice entry :)
radmars
14. May 2013 · 03:30 UTC
Cool concept & controls but it's a bit too hard right off the bat - could use a tutorial level, or more ramp-up.
Wish I Was an Astronaut
19. May 2013 · 16:15 UTC
Do I detect FL Studio and Riff Machine? :D