Really funny

What a nice game. Cute overall story. I'm a big fan of the 3D graphics and the core mechanic; delivering honey in a jar on a string by only using WASD keys to move in a single plane seemed pretty limiting but there were surprisingly many vertical obstacles that could be overcome. Clever!

The game is really fun! I love how you have to move do a bunch of things in order to get the honey past certain obstacles, and this is definitely one of the most unique games I've seen in the game jam!

Really sweet little game. The intro cutscene goes hard, haha. The music is nice and relaxing, and its quite challenging too. But nontheless its very smooth and is well made ^^

I really like the graphics and the whole backstory cartoon. Also, great idea for mechanics!

This was fun! I really liked the challenges of the level.

Also the ending song was incredible.

I would be really impressed if you dont win the audio part.
Really fun game, simple yet entertaining!

5 stars

Fantastic game! probably my favorite game in the jam so far. Really well executed and fun to play. Makes the player feel smart when you figure out how to maneuver over some of the obstacles. The story, audio and visuals were amazing for a jam game. Nice job!

Your game is AWESOME <3

Let me get the tiny "not perfect" things out of the way:
- In the ending scene on an ultrawide monitor the base unity scene shows at the edges of the screen
- The first horizontal tree could be a bit lower to ease our way a bit more into this kind of challenge

Now, everything else is incredibly good: the 2D drawings and animations are lovely, the game is both super intuitive, challenging, balanced, innovative and beautiful. The "going over obstacles" mechanic is very neat: seems impossible at first but then it clicks and you start swinging your jar around, taking more risks.

...and then there's the end song <3
Incredible job, best game I've played so far in the jam!

Excellent game! The art, the soundtrack, everything is done very well. Kartuun is very cute, the whole game is cozy. Really enjoyed the interaction with the physics. Top rated.

Really great/cute little game. I don't have much to add other than what @tom-oak said: the first horizontal tree is a bit high. I also found the tires by checkpoint 8 to be unproportionally difficult (skill issue?).

I'm guessing and hoping you'll score very high on the jam :) Good luck!

This is a wonderful game jam game, I love it! Not many jam games where you can find cutscenes, let alone of this quality! The game itself also look wonderful, the challenges are varied and they make a good use of your main mechanic. I only wished the jar wasn't swinging that much ;_; Great stuff!

Wow! The game is SOOOO beautiful, both 2d and 3d. I got stuck a few times, but I am so hapy I made it til the end! Great work with music!

Fantastic idea and amazing execution. I had a great time playing this one. I loved the obstacles that you had to swing the jar over. Great work!

Such a nice game! Super clever physics twist and super fun to play! And I needed to play it just for that ending pun. Great job!

It's AMAZING, I have enjoyed the game immensely! It's one of the best jam games I played! Really simple mechanics and plot, but it looks very stylish ^^ Idea of using 'WASD' to deliver jar on a string is clever and it's nice to play with!! Adorable characters and cutscenes, and final cutscene is really fun and
FANTASTIC <3

A very interesting and kind game. The video at the end is top class. I missed the implementation of the pause. Looking forward to the sequel.

I want I like the story! The title is funny.

It's a very cute and nice game, music and art are great.

10/10 probably the most cute game I've seen :D

Wonderful game! I love that I start back at checkpoints. It's really well designed for a high failure rate. Great graphics and music. Thanks for a great game.

OMGGGGGGGGG THIS IS YHE BEST GAME!

Incredible work! By the way at the first seconds i thought that the mouse stole beeee's piano XD

really beautiful and cute game, not that peaceful (because it's hard! the 2nd tire of checkpoint 8 always got me haha) but really well executed. i loved the physics, even if sometimes it was a bit hard to predict the rope movements. however, really nice entry, great work!

Very fun game!

I really loved the game ! Graphics are amazing, I love the bee. At the beginning, I always broke the honey, but once you understand a little bit the physics of the game, you can get better!

Congratulations for making this game in such a short time, it is very well done!

Good job for finishing this game, it looks so polished and the bee is cute!

Pretty fun game! Kinda infuriating at some points, but I had a good time regardless. The cute graphics and great soundtrack matched well together. A solid 8.5/10! And that credit song too, absolutely beautiful!

That was a lot of fun! I love what you did with game mechanic. On the first log obstacle I had a long think: How I'm supposed to avoid that? XD Great ending song too!

Very sweet game, bee is so cute!

OMG, what a nice entry :scream: ! Congrats!

The animation intro was soooo cute! I really liked the 2D art of your game (the animations need some frames, but this is not a issue overall)

The gameplay was really addicted! Some parts were hard (the trees with the wheels for example), but the feeling of pass trough them are very satisfying!

Finally, about the music, the chosen soundtrack was the icing on the cake from your game! Good job!

:musical_note: Let it bee! Let it beeeeeeee! :musical_note:

Wow this is probably one of the best entries I've seen in this entire jam! Magnificent job with the animations and gameplay. Also that ending song is absolutely incredible. It took me a few tries to figure out what to do when I hit the log but once I figured it out I was very satisfied. I think that you did a really good job of taking a simple mechanic and adding a lot of depth to how the player can interact with it.

Did I helicopter that honey pot over a tree. Yes I did. Fantastic game, the cinematic are so cool, I restart the game only to see the facial expression of that rat again, the ending song. The mechanic is so simple yet the level design kept adding depth to it. Stunning game, great entry for this jam !
Trying to be constructive and if I was nitpicking, maybe a shader could add to the 3D something more consistent with the style of the cinematic. Awesome work, surely one of the best I played

Fun little cute game! as i said on stream, about graphics would have worked wonders a little bit of post processing/light baking, for the rest it's very well done! appreciated a lot the cutscenes! :D

Really great game; my favourite so far I think. The controls were great and the physics of the honey worked really well. The variety of obstacles was also nice.

Maybe I would have liked a little control over the camera e.g. making it move faster if I go forwards, or slower if I go backwards. In general, I think it could even work better without a constantly moving camera; but I might be wrong about that.

Even outside of gameplay, the art looks great and the little animation at the start was amazing. The music was obviously fantastic too, especially the surprise at the end! Overall this was a great game and I really hope you keep working on it, I'd love to play more levels!

This is such a great game! The concept is so cute and poetic, and I especially love how you made the theme of this jam the core of the mechanics and gameplay. Simple yet really clever. Not to mention this fabulous ending song. I'll probably think of this one next time I listen to the Beatles ^^

This is one of the best games I have ever seen! I am a very big fan of animation and animation, so the short film at the beginning of the game won my heart! I liked a little humor, give me honey, I'll give pionino! So you also have a combination of 3d and 2d, it's just very cool! You are great fellows! I want to note that I liked to wave honey like nunchucks. The only thing I noticed is that it’s a pity you can’t pause ... The games are super, I advise everyone! Can I know the author of the animations?

@vera-babchenko Thank you so much for the feedback. To answer your question I did the animation for the cutscenes! The backgrounds of the cutscenes were made by the insanely talented Myre.

Your game really puts a smile on my face! The intro alone is worth it, and from a gameplay perspective, you guys managed to come up with a lot of ideas with a simple concept. Overall, great job and congratulations to the team!

@rabbert And can you give your credits or links? I repeat, you are great fellows! I would love to create something like this too!

@vera-babchenko Oh sure, you can find me as "Rabbert" anywhere. I'd recommend checking my YouTube.

Cute fat bee :3
I liked the sections where you had to swing the bee around like a helicopter.

nothing but good feeling and swingin' honey jars! love it.

Am I doing this right?


Anyway, great game. I think everyone deserve a piano so yeah, I would definitely get the bee one.

great game, fun mechanics, nice stoytelling.top work

A real pity you had to cut that credit scene! A well done game that has a harmonious feel to it, though there's a lot of challenge to overcome, quite the amusing feel to it too haha. I loved the aesthetics of it, the graphics were neat and clean and everything felt as a one unit. Marvelous work overall!

Wow, this is such a solid entry. The mechanics were so solid and intuitive. I was holding my breath trying to make it through with my honey at times. The difficulty and time to complete were perfect for a jam game. I could even play without issue on my weird resolution monitor even though the sides of the game were cut off on full screen :sweat_smile:

HELLO BEEEES!

This was THE most stressfull relaxing experience I ever had, super fun and checkpoint 8 was super hard!

This was really adorabale and fun! Loved the opening and ending scenes. Like that bee, I too would go through checkpoint 8 multiple times just to trade a jar of honey for a grand piano ;-)

Great audio and visuals!

@rabbert Subscribed to you and to Myre!!!

Sweet Game! Loved the music, art, and gameplay. Once I realized I could move forward and backward, it was much easier :face_palm: (I did make it to the higher tires on my self-imposed hard mode) This was somehow both relaxing and chill and incredibly stressful in the best way. Thank you for the checkpoints!

The animation of the mouse at the start made me burst out laughing, and the ending song was phenomenal. The in-game graphics were great, and the core mechanic of swinging the jar around was really fun! You managed to make the mechanic work in a bunch of different interesting ways, and every different checkpoint section felt unique because of it.

I really loved the game, well done!

What a nice game! Finished and polisahed experience, even have a cute little story. Main mechanic is simple, understandable and gives you fun from the start. Kinda reminds what I did for my first LD with keep it alive theme, but with ballon.
Small suggestion would be to keep the velocity of the jar after restart, otherwise it feels like an unfair andvantage, espesially before narrow sections.
Good job!

I loved it! Getting the hang of swinging the jar over the obstacles was fun. And the forgiving checkpoints really helped. Thank you for making this :D

Wow!!! The best entry I've seen this time by far! Fun innovative Mechanic, Really really nice art - both in cutscenes and gameplay, and the music was just wow amazing - I think the best I've heard in any Ludum Dare. Actually I would have loved to hear more of the original music in the credits instead of the exhausted Beetles song.
The sound sound design, and the sound mix in cutscenes are also great.
Also loved the expression in the faces of the characters in the cutscenes. :D Well done!!

Neat gameplay, and awesome cutscene. Really great job!

GOD TIER game! Everything from start to finish is awesome, I wish it lasted longer! I'd also love to smack some enemies with that spinning helicopter honey maneuver :smile:

super funny game! the "bee on the string" physics worked really well and it was a nice challenge. the soundtrack was amazing, too! had to laugh when the outro song started playing ;D

Damn that's a real nice game. The opening is strong, like, my man, that's a full-blown animated cutscene in a 72 game. The only thing I didn't like were the 3D graphics. They just feel off, way too much like those horrible mobile games. Should've kept the artstyle from the cutscenes. But, the honey jar mechanics were real clever, so iffy graphics can be forgiven.

Cute graphics, interesting implementation of the theme and nice music. Good game.
I would like to see more complex and varied levels with such mechanics, and maybe a challenge mode without checkpoints.

love the full song at the end! Incredible to see animated cutscenes, high quality original music, and polished visuals all in a game jam game. Who sung the song at the end?

Nice and good looking "runner" with unique mechanics that make sense and pretty fun to play with. Good graphics, not too long, nicely put checkpoints. Story didn't seems interesting to me, although it's better to have at least this kind of story instead of no story at all :) Liked the gameplay, although the game could use a little more sounds, Ilked the "bzzz" sound on restart though.

In general – really good entry, nice work!

Hi there, what a small little game with an animated intro (wait what?)! A game itself a little bit challenging, but you've done good with the physics, as much as it's possible at least. However I've stuck on 8-th checkpoint and didn't manage (sorry guys :sob: broke so many honey cans there).

Huge respect for artistic style and music

very good game,

I am very attentive to little (big?) details in games, and the fact that you did those animations for intro and outro is something that really appeal to me :D

The game in itself is good a well polished. Nothing more to say

Regarding art direction, I think I would have preferred a 2D/3D mix style (like paper mario) in order to have the same styles as the animation throughout the game (it's just me being very picky because I like consistency ^^)
But the game is beautiful as it is ;)

Amazing Graphics,challenging gameplay,interesting mechanics ! Well Done !

This was very beesome! Could have played this for hours.

No complaints :laughing: :bee:

Wow, what a great and funny game! Great graphics, cute cutscenes and animations, cool soundtrack, super game mechanics with very nice checkpoints (thanks for that ;)) and the credits are just awesome! I had to laugh so hard!!! Outstanding game! It will be a while before I stop associating the word "be" with "bee". :bee: :joy:

I loved this game. So far, it's maybe the best one I've played on this jam. The art direction is beautiful, neat and so cute. The gameplay is not so simple but it's fair enough. I enjoyed the whole experience. And the cherry on the cake, the atmosphere brought by the intro and the outro. Well done !

Very cool game! Very hard too!

Best bee ever! Top notch, maybe a bit hard, but it gets challenging and that's cool. Loved the "Let it Bee" song).

Great game!!!! I've thoroughly enjoyed the entire playthrough. Thank you!

This was amazing!! I'm so impressed with the creativity and the execution!

Very well done. Art, music, gameplay, all great. My only nitpick is, the abruptness of the transitions between scenes. I really liked the simplicity of the mechanics, and the depth introduced by the environment, such as spinning the jar over obstacles. Great job yall!

Stupid bee should have just flown up more, very well done game

I am so bad at it but enjoyed it very much nonetheless ! The little wings are abnormally cute, I can't. And I agree with the others, the animation parts are above pleasing <3

This game is awesome and well polished! The idea is super cool. It's kind of challenging but thanks to the checkpoints I never felt frustrated when I lose. And the animation and audio are all wonderful! Well done!

it's a very cool concept with nice funny story and good art!

Loved it! The bee jar mechanic is so simple but fun to play with, and you guys designed interesting challenges around it. It was so fun to swing the jar in a circle to hover it above the ground :)
I liked that there was a clear goal, and check point progressing to show me my progress. Game was a good length too.

Cute aesthetic and Gorgeous art, fun and challenging gameplay, great physic based game !

Wow, this goes into my top picks folder! Such a nice idea, well executed, looks nice, amazing sounds and end track! The only thing I could think of as criticism is that the second to last checkpoint was right before the narrow path between the logs, and after failing once, it was very easy since you did not have to stop the swinging from the previous obsticle (hope I'm making sense). Overall, super nice work!

Really nice game, well done. Great level design, assets, controls etc. Overall top 3 for sure.

The physics feels very great! The aesthetics are nice and I love the cut-scenes. The best game I’ve played so far.

This is soo cute omg HAHAHAH loved the lore and the simple mechanic. Btw SPIIINNN. Amazing game, simple but effective and loved the artwork, so cute. Congratz to the team!!

Art, music(omg I love final cover song), plot and gameplay! Everything on the fantastic level. True game jam gem.

Very nice game! Very rare to see this kind of visuals and music in a jam game!

Not my favourite mode of honey transportation :) Really liked the art and the music - the plot and the associated gameplay is cute, but I feel like the rope mechanic is a little too fickle to use (or maybe I am just bad). I would maybe have suffered less dying a million times if there would be more than one death sound effect. Great entry nonetheless!

Very sweet game! Gameplay is simple but fun and original. Levels are interesting, and well balanced in difficulty (a bit on the easy side because of the high number of checkpoints, but it's much better this way that the other way around). The intro and outro are great. The rope works great.

Maybe some animations of the bee in game would have been nice, but it already looks fantastic at it is.

Unrelated to the game itself, I think your game window is way too big (on itch). My prefered way of doing it:
* In Unity->Player->DefaultCanvasWidth/Height 1280x720
* In Itch -> 1280x760

This way, the user can play in a small 16:9, or hit the fullscreen button and go back to 1920x1080.

defo one of my favourites this jam, love the animation at the start

Absolutely adorable start sequence, I loved the animation and the storyline is set up to be so cute. Very smooth implementation of the string, could imagine that this was quite difficult to develop. Gameplay loop was on the simpler side but I think this is perfect far a game jam. Insanely polished game, amazing job!!

Thanks for the collision geometry being not too hardcore. It was still challenging to finish, but I made it without tears :laughing: Nice graphics and great sound! Well done! Such a shame the credits soundtrack had to be cut. C'mon folks - go give it a thumbs up on the YT!

Really outstanding job on this game! I loved that it made me want to keep playing, and the beginning was amazing!

Oh my goodness, I freaking loved that! There was a *big* distinction between the cutscenes and the gameplay, and while I still really enjoyed the gameplay, it was the cartoon segments that I cared for in the end (:laughing:)! The game is enjoyable, I loved how creative you got with the obstacles nearing the end -- requiring you to not only avoid hitting obstacles but swing your honey over them, and such. There were a few different sections that felt a bit *too* punishing in comparision to the surrounding ones (I'm talking about the *triple-tire-tunnel-TM*), but overall, it was challenging without being too difficult (:3)! *LOVED THE CREDITS, MORE PEOPLE NEED TO DO THIS, YOU'VE INSPIRED ME!*

Great job, all of you, keep it up! :clap:

Funny game, would've liked to have the camera follow me instead of having to wait for it to advance and whoever did the cartoons, please do the rest of the game in that style, it was so cute.

Either way, I liked the mechanics of having to hold the honey with a string and the challenges that come with that, was fun. Great job guys!

Since my girlfriend loves this game (and especially the outro) so much, I also had to play it. :smile: In this game is really awesome. Nice idea with the rope, good level design, right level of difficulty, great graphics and soundtrack, everything is so polished. Congrats for this wonderful entry.

un-bee-lievable!

What an adorable game, with adorable art! Surprisingly challenging gameplay, but still good vibes all around.

My only complaint is that I think the default resolution on itch.io is too high - and I tend to have trouble with the built-in LD player. Since the resolution was so high, I had some perf issues on my MacBook. But still, the game itself is fantastic!

Amazing game! Good job guys!
The art is really beatiful and the music i very good. The best game I played this LD until now.

I LOVE IT

Fantastic all around - I had a lot of fun! Pass on my compliments to the composer, she gives me a level to aspire to for future jams :)

This was great. I loved the 3D models and the original songs were nice and cheery. Though a bit sensitive, it was pretty fun swinging the jar around and it was nice seeing the rope physics used for some of the obstacles! My only real complaint I think is some obstacles were hard to get through because the previous ones obscured the view but otherwise great! The checkpoint system helped a lot and was frequent enough to keep things approachable too.

The start and ending cut scenes were so good too!

Piano rescued!!

Great game! So fun that I played it till the end.

Very good level design. The two logs with the horizontal slits checkpoint is the most difficult in my opinion, spent most time on it.

May I suggest some idea? A checkpoint with a really large fan that blows sideway. And a checkpoint with inverted gravity.

Currently the best game of this Jam we've played so far!!
The gameplay based on physics is absolutely satisfying and genius!!
Graphics, music and finally everything is great!

GOOD JOB!! :hearts:

Amazing entry. Loved the story and simple yet engaging mechanics

Thank you, I have absolutely loved it! The story is super cute and funny, and the gameplay fits the theme really well. :bee:

This was so fun! Love the attention to detail, the story, the music the graphics :smile: Top scores!


Would be great to see some more levels / more things for the bee to trade honey for , though the current ending is pretty epic, it'd be cool to see some more woodland creatures and musical instruments :smiley:

Very good idea! Graphics looks a bit unconsistent but good too! I liked music too!

Gameplay is very good, and idea you came up with is very nice, to deliver something that easily break is gorgeous. It hits the theme exactly and seems unique! Great job!

Also gamedesign (level design especially) and respawn a bit tricky, especially i stuck at 6th checkpoint, because the movement of wheels always was different. Sometimes it was very different from past try, and some times just a bit.

It was very fun to play! Except moments when i stuck at a 6th checkpoint

bees 2d art is very cute :)

Let it bee, Let it beeee, Let it bzzzzzz

Nice game, I really liked the artstyle and music!

What a fantastic entry! The art is superb, the music is some of the best I've heard this jam (Let it bee is incredible), and the gameplay is simple yet hard to master. The physics work great and the difficulty feels just right. I only wish it was just a bit longer, but this is one of my favorite entries for sure.

I really liked the gameplay and managed to finish it. The game looks and sounds great. I'm not sure how I feel about using a combination of original music made for the game and someone else's compositions (intro Ghibli song & end credits Beatles song) and still having audio rating. It all works very well though!

@bradur That's a good point. I'd like to raise the point that it was purely for comedic and dramatic effect, not to be taken seriously and falls within fair use (parody and cover). The intro song is Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy which is in the public domain also played by me with my own interpretation. The let it bee song is a parody cover and sung by me so it is transformative. So I'd argue that it's still worth taking into account in the rating!

The animated intro is so cool haha I love the mouse facial expressions ! I find the checkpoints to be correctly challenging and it's a short but fun entry so very good job !

Love the physics!!! Was waiting for a Winnie the Pooh cameo :D

Super polished. The difficulty was well-balanced throughout, and the art + music was great too (I loved the opening cutscene!). Great work.

Super fun, had a great time playing through it. Fantastic entry!

Finishing the game is so rewarding ! Thanks a lot, very funny.
The game was fun and beautiful. Great entry!

This is pretty much all you could expect from a game jam: the story, art and gameplay are coming together in a fantastic smooth and funny experience. Great job!

Congrats of getting to top15! :D

An awesome game! The Bee is so cute!!! I want to hug it :D