Thank you all for the ideas and especially thanks to Shinobi for your animation example.

cheers

Sinnlos & Zwecklos

The new bee looks nice, although I got accustomed to the old one in the demo!

IMO, you should make the wings bigger. BTW, don't they have two parts within a wing?

Heya
Here is the bee with a basic skin and the original ingame polycount:



As mentioned the bee has 1576 triangles, that equals 796 polys.
Skin texture 512*512

Also we have added some particle effects, shots (just a test shot) and some further finetuning into the game... Stay tuned for the next demo.

For the shot we have thought about using some kind of electricity flash strike coming out of the antennas.
But we have to test if it fits.

cheers

zweckless & sinnless

Awesome!
The bee's so much better now! As you said, still sort of comic style, but a lot better looking!
I think you really should make it two wings, and make the wings bigger. It would look even cooler...
just my oppinion though
Post some screens of that electricity flash once you're done!

Micha

Hi !

Sorry habe erst jetzt gesehen, dass eine spielbare Demo online ist.
Also das Game ansich ist wirklich sehr schön, aber mit der Lenkung der Biene, da habe ich total meine Probleme. Man müsste die Möglichkeit haben, per Tastendruck die Rotation der Biene zu beeinflussen, komme ich gegen einen Baum, dann fliegt sie total wirr umher, das nervt. Sonst aber ist das Game echt nett.

Gruß Blitzblaster

It doesn't run on my pc as I don't have a Shader 2.0 card

Can you make a video of the game? as I cant run it on my computer.

@Germanunkol
thanks... we are pleased u like the model... we'll check if we add more wings... since its also more work to do in the animations.

@Blitzblaster1
Danke für deine Kritik... wir haben diverse Pläne, wie wir die Steuerung noch ändern/anpassen wollen.

@Iron Chancellor , Damocles
its a pitty the game doesn't work on your computer systems.
what graphic card are you using and with what system specs?

We have posted a vid before... it's kinda old, but we will upload a new one soon. however here is the old vid:

Bumble Bee Island Video - High
avi zipped 70MB

Bumble Bee Island Video - Low
divx zipped 16MB requires divx codec

Here a little screenshot-update:



So far we have made 16 Levels and added particles for turbo, shot, rings etc.
The water shader is final. Finally we've found a reasonable solution.
Also we have found someone who will make the sound for us.

Stay tuned for the next Demo

cheers

Der Sinn und Zwecklos

Hi, i´ve played for the first time your demo and i must say its a fantastic work, very professional and the graphics are very good.

Dont know if you already improved the camera collision detection which needs some attention.

Keep it the good work and congratulations!

Hi demiGod,
Thank you for playing our demo.
There is a camera-collision in the latest version but it is still alpha.

Thanks again for your reply, it keeps us motivated

cheers

Sinn & Zweck