Hey man. Saw AKD post about this and gave it a try. Nice work. I love the idea of risking going or posting your score, never seen any games like that!
Great job on the tutorial, Matt. It couldn't be more crystal clear! I only noticed it because I passed my best score of 137 and am now at 150. This is a rare twitch/high-score chaser where instead of being tense, I'm calm and bopping my head to that tune! @Eric Rossman - Did you complete a section and submit your score to GC? I don't see you on the leaderboard. @Mathew - Guess I'm gonna have to start spamming my friends with GC challenges! =P Edit: sent out high-score challenges to 72 GC friends. Lol Please don't hate me guys /o\
Congrats on your first game, really nice job. I am impressed how quickly you were able to make this and the quality is way better than my first efforts. Good Luck with the downloads!!!
Just got a new highscore of 373 points, the bee goes so fast now it's thrilling to keep him going through the gates proper. I wanna try this week to get past 400 ha ha.
Perfect! Thank your friend for me, I think it was a much-needed addition. Appreciate it, I did that too Thanks man That would be insane, best of luck to ya!
Just started playing and I was blown away by how good it looks and plays. It's hard to believe this is your first game. Seriously, this is so much better than some of the complete garbage some devs post here on TA. The bad part is I really completely suck at this game. I don't think I have ever sucked so hard at a game before it's embarrassing. My high score is 3 but I couldn't even reach a checkpoint to submit it. lol I think some of the problem is that once I stop the bee, I forget which direction it's going and die.
Thank you for those compliments! Now let's get you on the leaderboard If you don't know already, not all honeycombs/coins are both reachable and survivable, so if it looks like it'll take too long for the bee to travel, play it more on the safe side and just focus on getting through the obstacle. As for the bee direction, maybe you could try saying either "up" or "down" in your head whenever you hold the screen to help remember. Or since the best practice is to let go as soon as you're through an obstacle, whenever you hold the screen to go through one, focus your eyes on the corner that you'll be passing by when you let go. Either the top corner or bottom corner depending on which direction you were going. Hopefully with enough repetition, it'll be more instinctive to just remember.
Thanks matt! I'm starting to get the hang of it and it's lots of fun. I submitted a score of about 17 but it didn't register on game center. The memorization thing has gotten a little easier but I think maybe having some sort of visual cue would help especially when you get really close to a wall and your not quite sure if you hit it. Maybe when you hold on the bee the bee's antennae can point upwards or downwards depending on the direction?
You need to get as many honeycombs you can get to get a highscore easier, for example you play 40 levels and get 7 points each you have 280 points, but when you get 8 points you have 320 points at the same speed if you know what I mean.
I play this game every day now, I play as follows first I go to 150 points in one go, than I pause a few hours and after that I go till 300 points it's a bit harder now and after 300 points I make a break again, and after a few hours I go to try to get to 400 points but that's easier said than done, mostly I die in the 350 range points.
That's awesome Matt, you said you've never gotten as far as ROGER-NL, just curious, what's the highest score you've gotten?
I am playing this game now for at least 25 hours and still got not enough, the main reason is the Leaderboard I wanna go past 400, but the gameplay mechanic is also very good and that for a first time developer hats of Matt. Just got a score of 400 points, my hands are shaking man so intense ha ha.
Congratulations on that incredible feat! The speed must've been seriously nerve-wracking The footage in my trailer was from an actual play-through, so the most I've had at the end of a level was 344, and died with 348. At that point my reflexes start to become too slow to stop the bee at the correct time, so I probably couldn't get much more than 350.
Hey Matt, I just wanted to say well done on creating such an addictive little gem. I love the risk factor of having to calculate whether it's safe to continue playing, a nifty little adrenalin-raising feature there. You can thank Slam The Man for unintentionally introducing me to this, I was having a peek at what he was currently playing and found your bundle of goodness. I must admit I wasn't overly enamoured by the graphics at first but once I'd cast aside my unjustified visual snobbery I found a great high-score chaser. Now how to beat Roger, the man is unstoppable! #
Hi Deckard74 the more you play the better you get, that is with most things in life ha ha, but you know what I mean.
Hey, thanks for dropping in to say that. I'm a graphics noob, so the visuals aren't the best, but it's fantastic to know that the concept and gameplay won you over anyway. Best of luck going for that dauntingly high bar of 400!
Just topped Deckard and will try as the week goes on to get those GC achievements and sneak up on Roger's score. I'm too chicken to take a big risk.
