Beehaw has me thinking about bees…
Sim Ant was such a nice little game when it came out (yes, I’m old) and it ought to be fun to have something similar but with bees.
Does anyone know if such a game exists? I looked around a bit and found Bee Simulator on steam but that’s more playing a single bee, not managing the entire hive.
Might still be neat though even if it’s not quite what I had in mind.
Anyway, just… wanted more bees. :)
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Give Hive Time a go. It has been a while since I played it in its early days but it was a fun bee hive management game.
The author is quite a fan of bees so I imagine he has done them justice.
https://cheeseness.itch.io/hive-time
Oh wow, this project looks like a really awesome management game! Thanks for sharing!
Edit:
Huh, I already own it without knowing it too O_o
It was in style giant charity bundle. The game is fun for a single party through I think.
I do that too. Especially with books. Start doing research for something new to read… finally settling on something that sounds really good.
Only to find I’ve already gone through that exact process and bought the book a few years back but never actually read it.
I just gave this a play-through because of your recommendation. What an adorable game! Thank you for sharing it.
That’s pretty neat!
That’s actually a pretty cool idea for a management sim. I could see a lot being done to make gameplay and progression based on real bee hive behaviour. You could have rival queens that result in contest or expanding to a second hive, compete against foreign hives or invasive species, weather events, hive construction itself, gameplay about ensuring you properly tend for larval bees, explore for and gather resources (flowers etc).
Now I want a bee game too.
There’s so much more that bees do, too. Managing hive temperature (as to be exactly 36c), collecting pollen, nectar, propolis, and water, cleaning the cells, removing dead bees, dealing with infections, raising drones…
Bees are cool.
It really would make a great game. Pretty much Sim Ant on steroids… and with bees of course :D
My thoughts exactly!
Somebody make this, this is brilliant. I would buy this.
Isn’t it strange that it hasn’t really been done yet?
Itch.io had a big game jam on the theme of bees a little while ago so I’m sure if you poke around on there for a while you’ll find stuff that scratches your itch.
How about Apico?
Interesting, going to have to check it out!
I am confident I could program a game like that; but I don’t know enough about bees to make it half as realistic as Wright made SimAnt.
I also suck at art so it’d either have to use random assets or be entirely text-based.
See, now we just need a graphics guru and probably a sound person and we can have something going!
Maybe a biologist as well?
I only want it if it comes with a college-level entomology textbook about bees packed in the box with it, like SimAnt had.
I spent so many hours playing Sim Ant as a kid!
It was so satisfying to manage to get the family to move out of their house because of all the ants too!
Yes! And playing as the spider, too!
That too yeah! :D
SimAnt was amazing. I just want it on GOG. :(
Yeah… it’s playable in the browser on a bunch of places and probably easily available as abandonware as well. But yeah, it’s sad how few old games are available for actual purchase.