{"author_link":"\/author\/triplevisiongames\/","author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","comments":[{"author_name":"Syntaxide","author_uid":"12186","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:17pm","epoch":1335211920,"text":"Is there a way to get more than one point in a single trip from the nest? How do you get more bees?"},{"author_name":"Zyll","author_uid":"4916","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1335212100,"text":"Liked it. Seems like an original concept!"},{"author_name":"jeroenimooo","author_uid":"9361","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1335300240,"text":"40 bees, dunno if it is alot ;p The animation made it all look cooler"},{"author_name":"Eelfroth","author_uid":"7288","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1335300780,"text":"I liked the pixel art and the general concept. Maybe you should add some difficulty (and a way to lose)."},{"author_name":"Zamando","author_uid":"12041","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1335302100,"text":"Neat idea! Now just add some more gameplay elements :)"},{"author_name":"devwil","author_uid":"7526","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1335303720,"text":"love the sprites, but i didn't feel like i was doing anything."},{"author_name":"strega","author_uid":"5269","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1335373800,"text":"Not bad. I ended with 110 bees. There's a nice exponential growth factor going on there. I started becoming hard to click fast enough to send out all the bees."},{"author_name":"Hatscat","author_uid":"10471","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1335374100,"text":"Nice Graphics, but poor gameplay"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1335374880,"text":"233 Bees, was fun, but would get old pretty quite just rapidly clicking I'd think, but good entry. :)"},{"author_name":"Jiddo","author_uid":"11351","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1335376560,"text":"Haha, this game had me hooked for much longer then I'd care to admit. I really like the art and the extremely simple but yet effective gameplay mechanics. Turned into a &quot;spam click on the closest bunch of flowers&quot;-game as soon as I got the hang of the idea tho."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1335386940,"text":"A little more gameplay wouldn't hurt. The strongest part are definitely graphics."},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1335387480,"text":"I just want to say THANKS genuinely for all the feedback :) I'm still trying to get the hang of everything so just that anyone thinks the concept\/art\/anything is even remotely good is awesome to me. The overall standard on here is great so I really respect everything that everyone has said. I'll be uploading an update version with a bit more 'game' to it hopefully by the weekend so please check back if you thought it had promise. Thanks everyone."},{"author_name":"Dr.Pingu","author_uid":"12088","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:55am","epoch":1335437400,"text":"You have a original idea.\r<br\/>I would have liked more interaction, but it's a good game :)"},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1335444900,"text":"missing some gameplay elements, but I think it's a great start of something interesting. It's unique, and not many games can claim that ;)"},{"author_name":"Vilborg","author_uid":"4884","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1335453780,"text":"Nice graphics; perhaps the gameplay would be more engaging if you added some obstacles or enemies to make it more tactical or challenging?"},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1335460740,"text":"Quick question. Well, 2 actually. 1: I'm working on adding bits to this leading up to the weekend, I've got 2 control schemes working. On this version the bees follow the mouse pointer, but I've also got it that the bees just fly where you click when they're released then buzz on back to the hive with or without pollen. Does anyone think one is better than the other? Also quesion 2: is there a way to upload a 'post-jam' version with my new enemy sprites and actual gameplay mechanics in the game? Thanks everyone"},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1335468120,"text":"I really liked the graphics! The game was not that hard though, some more gameplay would be nice"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 1:46pm","epoch":1335620460,"text":"There should add a target to aim for, including a gameplay mechanism which make it necessary to decide what to do instead of clicking multiple times somwhere on the screen.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I got 192 bees :D"},{"author_name":"MaximSchoemaker","author_uid":"11306","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1335621180,"text":"Interesting idea and lovely art :)\r<br\/>The gameplay wasn't really exciting, which was a shame :P but I really liked the bees' bee-like movement :3"},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1335624240,"text":"I managed to breed 166 bees and still I don't know how...  The graphics are sure cute and well done, but the game play is repetitive and boring."},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:17am","epoch":1335658320,"text":"Really neat-looking, and it's mesmerizing watching the bees fly around - I like their pathfinding; very realistic-seeming.  Not much to the game part, but it looks beautiful with the flowers and clouds dashing by."},{"author_name":"jeffz","author_uid":"4842","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:56am","epoch":1335660660,"text":"Looks really neat and clean, some good potential here.  Let down a little by lack of music, but shows a lot of promise!"},{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 1:02am","epoch":1335661020,"text":"Would have been nice with music and sound.  The graphics were good except the grass background,  but the flowers were pretty and so was the hive and sky line.  Good colours, good fonts, etc."},{"author_name":"Zaxuhe","author_uid":"12209","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 1:36am","epoch":1335663060,"text":"Liked the game and the sprites, a little hard to play it, and to use the controls"},{"author_name":"Moth","author_uid":"811","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 4:26am","epoch":1335673260,"text":"Cute! :) I like the graphics and the different levels of scaling between them. Ended with 39 bees. I think it's a really nice little package, therapeutic and fun to interact with. I'd be excited to see some skill involved in the gameplay that can help or hinder your production of bees.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I will be keeping an eye on this for the later version! :)"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 9:14am","epoch":1335949740,"text":"Looks really cool, but is there any better strategy than randomly clicking?"},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 7:42pm","epoch":1336073820,"text":"Forget the lawnmower I'm ripping that out. I have an idea for a game that actually has a purpose to it. Might work, might not. I plan to have this ready for Sunday so check back then."},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 9:04am","epoch":1336381140,"text":"Update is ready except for sound and day counter! See how long you can survive :D"},{"author_name":"Ben","author_uid":"11294","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1336682760,"text":"Wow. Innovative, pretty, and with huge potential. The post-compo game is excellent (Introducing the night = brilliant), but alas I could only rate your compo entry, which is still pretty and innovative. Great work!"}],"images":["ld23\/12495-261ed30b136b5b442df8f43105aa646c.jpg","ld23\/12495-b548436df31401d1c73526888ee1e2a3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/72954024\/TinyWorldOfBees.v.1.0.swf","text":"WEB (entry)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/72954024\/Details%20of%20changes%20in%20Update.txt","text":"Upate Log"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/72954024\/TinyWorldOfBeesv1b.swf","text":"POST JAM"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30588","g_author":"12495","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"30618","g_title":"Tiny World of Bees","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"193","g_commentcount":"29","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/12495-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/12495-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"*******PLEASE READ THIS SECTION********\r\nPlease try my update (after voting on original version). \r\n\r\nI've worked at adding a bit more to it (it's almost like a real game now!)\r\n\r\nJust added music too although not quite got it linking from one bit to the next as I'd want it. Main;y because it never seems to run at the right framerate\r\nAh well.\r\n\r\nStill to come - day counter (to see how long you survived) and might need to add an extra column to the score counter seeing as you currently can't accumulate more than 9999 bees)\r\n\r\nThanks for trying this out! Any feedback or shameless promotion is more than welcome :D :D\r\n\r\n*********Thanks!!***********\r\n\r\nHow to Play\r\nYou start with 1 bee, click to send him out. Collect pollen to get more bees.\r\n\r\nClick twice if you want to send out 2 bees (if you have 2 bees) or 3 times for 3 bees etc (No limit on number of bees) \r\n\r\nBees are deaf, so there's no sound (this could be a lie to justify not adding sound).\r\n\r\nI'll be adding more to this after the jam so if you like it there'll be updates at:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.triplevisiongames.tumblr.com \r\n\r\nYou can also check out 'By Candlelight\", which is a work in progress (and me learning to design, draw and use XNA\/C#)<\/p>","title":"Tiny World of Bees"}