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[grickmin]

Brave Honey Bee




Download: http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=22147

Instructions:
Left + Right - Move bee
S - Fly/Jump
A - Place a savestation
 
Note: Savestations can only be placed at blocks with a thin, yellow line at the top.

Enjoy!


Game by: Grickmin
Inspired by: Psychosomnium (cactus)
Music by: AA. Kurtz
Thanks to: Nifflas



-grickmin

www.grickmin.co.nr

[Gainsworthy]

A tribute to somebody, perhaps? Looks cute. We'd like to play, yes.

[Hideous]

Looks like psychosomnium to me?

[grickmin]

DEMO available now.

[sergiocornaga]

Hell of a way to end a demo.

Nice work! Clearly this was inspired by the bee part of Psychosomnium, which was my most hated part of that great game, but I found that the more lenient nature of your engine allowed me to enjoy it. However, I can see the concept getting a bit dull and I don't think adding more gameplay elements could hurt- I understand that you are limited by the constraints of the contest, but I think the gameplay could use expansion.

[grickmin]

Yeah! It´s a bit inspired about the bee part in Psychosomnium. (Awesome game, btw)
Right now I´m working on to add new gameplay, like moving-blocks and stuff. To do this, I think I´ll have to sacrifice some "details" like the bee animation when falling.

About the end: Don´t take this Demo very seriosly. It was originally made for showing the bee-movement.

[jwaap]

Well, I love the graphics. Other then that, add lots of moving things and make it challenging later on.

[grickmin]

Yaay! I finally managed to add vertical moving "spike-blocks" without exceeding 20 events!
The level at the screenshot is btw a lot harder than it maybe seems...

[handCraftedRadio]

Brave Honey Bee? Sounds like the brother to my game, Bravehorse.  :D

[moshboy]

I like what I see so far.. looking forward to seeing the rest.

[grickmin]

There are a few people at other sites that thinks the fly-animation is kinda crappy. What do you think?

[jwaap]

You might wanna make the wings move a little lower? Like get under the "attachment point".

[cactus]

I beat the demo. Pretty fun stuff

[grickmin]

You might wanna make the wings move a little lower? Like get under the "attachment point".

I have thought about that too.
I think I´ll change the "animation" when the bee is stopped also.


I have got some suggestions about to add some sort of score system and maybe also some hidden bonus things. What about that? I don´t really like it, feels like it is going to ruin the simplicity in the gameplay.

[Hideous]

I beat the demo. Pretty fun stuff

Alright so if the creator of Psychosomnium likes it, then it has to be good.

[Kisguri]

How many Events are you using now in the main Engine Frame?

And when I had suggested to you points system over at Clickteam maybe I could have added a bit more detail, prehaps you need to inject a little story, your mission could be to have to collect "Pollen" for your Hive, each Pollen Object can be worth various amounts, and you can show that with the Score Object without adding to much more coding to the game, then the game I would think become more then just fly to survive but adds a element of hunting out the pollen, IE more then just survive when your flying you end up with a objective...

Just a thought

[grickmin]

The problem is that I´m not using the crappy built in platform-movement so the
platform movement engine is taking quite many events.

I have already used all the 20 events so it´s going to be hard. 
I think I´ll have to come up with new ideas of gameplay.

Please post tips!

[dustin]

what are these "events" of which you fellows speak?

[grickmin]

It´s like: Event -->  Bee colliding with spike.
           Action --> Destroy bee.

An event can also be e.g. start of frame, speed of bee=4, always, never, every 1.0 second.

Hope you understand now :>

[Corpus]

"Never" sounds like an incredibly useful event.