I can see just one problem: Pressing ESC makes the game to exit. Please add a "Are you sure?" Panel.

Other than that... Great work!

First of all, we want to thank you for downloading and testing the demo. We are really eased to hear that you like it so far.

EX Citer:
You are right, the bee model is too simpel... We will make a redesign.
We will also make the standard speed a little bit faster and we will add turbo-boosts.
And yeah, the exploding stuff is missing, we try to add this in the next demo.
We thougth that it would be the best to add more detail and little jokes at the very end.

PHeMoX:
Aye, that seam-problem is really annoying.
We already had that problem in the first terrain (first post of this thread) and we spent alot of time to get them closed but with no success yet.
We already scripted a camera collision, but we'll have to finetune it a little more.

frazzle:
There is actually no water shader applied yet. We have some ideas, and will have to test which one is the best.
About the texture sizes: all textures are 512*512 except the blending maps (1024*1024). In a earlier stage we had all textures on 1024*1024 and the blendmaps even 2048*2048, but we thought its better to go down because we want to add so much more stuff like particles, sound, etc...

Frank_G:
The whole level including plants, house, tree, etc... has 87'374 tri's.
We dont have any clipping or LOD-systems. All we use is mipmapping.
The terrain shader we made ourselfes. its a FFP shader with 3 Passes.

Sorcerer:
We plan a little menu where you can choose either to continue the game, go back to the main menu or exit the game.

cheers

Zwecklos & Sinnlos

yes...
but don't expect any realtime reflections... we will make a ffp-shader which doesn't take too much performance.

here some further progress:
we made a new bee-model. it has more realistic shapes but is still comic-style... we hope this will match better with the enviroment.



this is just a beauty-render where the mesh is smoothed with 2 iterations... the real game model has 1576 tri's.

in the moment we are a bit stuck... we want to add the ability to shoot with the bee... but what kind of shot could a bee do?
-shoot whith a little mini-rifle?
-shoot with a laser gun which is attached to the body (cyborg-style)?
-just shoot with an energy-ball which pops out of the mouth?

what do u think... what could fit into this game?

cheers

zwecklos & sinnlos

EDIT: for those who didn't download the demo yet:
Bumble Bee Island Demo
Read zwecklos his post whith requirements and info on page six of this thread.

I think it will be difficult to make the bee hold a minirifle. Not impossible but difficult.
Lasergun attached to the body sounds cool. Reminds me of some old Amiga game
Pops out of mouth, not bad but, too strange und uncool

how about it shoots some kind of sting thing. I know that bees can only sting once then they die but, hey, its comic!

Hi , sorry habe zwar diesen thread verfolgt jedoch nichts gepostet . Also euer Bienenspiel gefällt mir gut (mal was anderes) bin gespannt wie es am ende wird .

Die Stachel schiess idee von alphaindigo finde ich sehr gut und habe mal eine kleine animation vorbereitet wie dies in action aussehen könnte.

Die animation zeigt das Stachelschiessen vom fliegen bis zur abschissanimation.

ANIMATION Example

Let it shoot some honey bubbles out of his mouth like bubble and bobble.

Wow, Shinobi, da hast du dir ja ganz schön viel Mühe gegeben für das Video. Das Problem das ich da sehe ist, ist die Videospiel regel das es vor einem Angriff 0 Wartezeit geben sollte. NAch einem Angriff ist es ok. Aber die Biene sollte in dem Moment schießen in dem ich drücke. Mit 0 meine ich nicht absolut 0. Aber es sollte wirklich extrem schnell gehen. Sonst sind meine Reflexe nutzlos. Außerdem entsteht ja schon eine Wartezeit durch meine Reflexe und durch das drücken der Taste.

ICh muss meine Spiele hingehend der Nullwartezeit vor dem Angriff auch noch überarbeiten

Argh, sorry, wrong language: Here ein Short in english: The time until the bee takes so long with that animation. I think that´s a problem.