Clumsy Bee

This game was created for the Blackthorneprod Game Jam #3 in 10-20 total hours!

On the theme of 'less is more':

You play as a little bee who has to bring pollen back to the hive, the more you carry, the worse you fly. Don't knock your lil' bee noggin' though as you'll drop all your pollen! Less is more... more safe to transport! Play as you wish though, we'll be judging how many bees you exhaust to death. 'Less is more' led us to early on focus on a small concept and do it well, one level, focused mechanics, small scope, more polish, really it was very refreshing!

Development!:

This was an absolute joy the create with Cristian, this was both of our first game jam! We had one hour of ideas/discussion, followed by long discord calls of development filled with bee memes and puns! We worked loads on the weekend and the evenings on workdays (we got day jobs), each working to our strengths! Cristian handled the art direction and assets while I (Joel) handled the game design and scripting, this allowed us to focus and iterate quickly which was key! I was bombarded with amazingly stylised assets (though one too many gnomes), and constantly showing Cristian little improvements in the game(like glitchy tornado bees)! 

To summarise:

Day 1: Ideas, concept art, modelling and prototyping.

Day 2: Mechanical tweaks, animation, more assets, early UI

Day 3: Core completed, first build, more UI 

Day 4: Testing, Bug hunting/Fixing Effects and polish, sounds, first upload

Day 5: 1.1 hotfix update, bug fixing polish, testing.

Day 6: Devlog

What we could improve:

With such a short development time there's loads we wanted to iterate and improve on! Animations for the other bugs, Music, more platforms, possibly more levels... Sound overall really, we really needed a Musical or Sound member but we are very shy, lurking in the blackthorneprod discord, I guess this is a 'hello :)' to everyone of sorts if you are reading this. Also, like less bee and gnome puns when discussing, holy moly your wouldn't beelieve the amount!

Anyhow, I could ramble about loads of stuff behind the scenes... So I'll end it here and just hope you enjoy the game! Onto the next project for us!