The Hive Must Grow!!!

A really wonderful cozy game! Dive into the word of bees and help them build an entire empire. You can send off worker bees, who collect resources to grow your city. Of course the queen can't be missed, she's keeping the city running if you're not around ;) But careful what you feed the queen.

Buildings

This list is an overview of all buildings that you can build in the game and what effect they have. Whenever you place an item, you get 10 XP, collect 2000 XP and you get a pat on the back from the dev team. Please note that you need to pay different amounts of  resources to build each  building and that you can only place a building if have enough space. (means you can not place a building if there is already another building or a tree).

  1. Hive: Gives you an additional bee.
  2. Well: Bees can rest here. If they fly over a well, they collect one honey.
  3. Picnic blanket: If a bee collects an item, it is not automatically added to your inventory. Instead a bee must drop resources on the picnic blanket to add them to your inventory. The item is dropped of automatically.
  4. Market: If you have more than 25 honey in your inventory, the market will start to trade honey for stone or wood.
  5. Clock: Periodically gives you 1 XP.
  6. Box: Grants you 15 XP when placed.
  7. Queen:  Grants you 40 XP when placed. You cannot feed the Queen, but do not worry for she will not starve either. 

Controls

  • Generel:
    • Move left
    • Move right
    • Move up
    • Move down
    • X or C: Change mode
  • In Control Mode:
    • Left mouse click: Select or deselect a worker bee, depending on what you click
    • Right mouse click: Move bee to position,. If also V: is pressed, then the bee will instead move to this position after it has moved to all other positions.
  • In Build Mode:
    • V: Change the building that you want to place. If you press this button multiple times, it will cycle through all 7 possible buildings.
    • Left mouse click: Place building.
    • Right mouse click: Destroy building (or tree).

Source Code

https://github.com/Kiyotoko/the-hive-must-grow

Credits

  • Leo (@Haminopulus): Art & Programming
  • Ella (@Ellie Ravenhurricane): Art
  • Karl (@Darth Bane): Programming, Music & SFX

Download

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hive_windows.zip 992 kB
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hive_osx.zip 7.3 MB
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hive_linux.zip 753 kB
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hive_raspi.zip 2.1 MB

Comments

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I really need more explanation. I can't understand the game at all. And as far as other comments go: I am not alone

im not sure if im doing something wrong but i cant advance past the "press any key to start' scree

Pico-8 is a virtual console. Therefore it only support keys that also exist on your old controller, which are X,Y and the arrow keys. If you press a WASD or number key, nothing will happen because it can not detect these keys on the laptop.

Very confusing...