In loving memory of The Queen Bee, a visionary leader who oversaw the completion of the great construction project in the winter of 2030 and nurtured a lineage of 229 daughters. Tragically, her life was cut short in the spring of 2034 by an unimaginable act—perpetrated by her own children. Though gone, her legacy as a guiding force and dedicated mother will forever resonate within the hive.

OK, I've started to build Minecraft-like structures with the honeycomb. This has to stop.

This is incredibly addictive. It took me a couple tries to figure out what was going on with the control scheme, clearer graphical/audible indicators would help there but given the time frame very slick!

This is so charming. I can really feel a passion for bees coming through. Flying around, ordering honey through dance, jostling the workers bees all just felt really good. I think this would have been a strong contender if you were able to put a bit more time into the less interesting presentation bits, and lean a bit harder into the theme somehow.

Like SecretPocketCat, I failed to recognize in time that long travel distances would affect my efficiency so much. At 75 workers and my hive built out towards the top left, I was barely keeping ahead of honey production. I managed to technically survive the winter by hiding in a corner, but should have waited a bit longer for my girls to get some food and chill before I showed my face again. RIP queen.

A couple minor nitpicky things that sort of bugged me

I felt like the "job indicator" interrobang graphic thing didn't read very well. I think I "get it" but at the start of the game I was like "what is going on?" I think this is mostly down to me not noticing there was a tutorial happening at first.

Most of the little bits of animation and movement were great, except for the workers entering/exiting the hive. Maybe add an area just outside of the hive where we can't build, but can see the workers flying off in a sort of cone until they go off-screen?

Also, I see you've set the code license to "MIT" in itch, but I don't see a link to the source anywhere.

Really addicting once you get used to the controls! Nice polish!

Initially it took me quite long to figure out how to actually collect honey, but then I probably played longer than I should have...

I got to far corner of the map, but that's too far away, so it a bit pointless. The bee is dead. Long live the bee!

I managed a year, but birthing 50 bees during winter was a fatal mistake!

So good!

those bees get real angry when they don't have anything to do