COMPOUND EYE FLIGHT SIMULATOR

Can you fly with a compound eye?

You now have the mosaic vision and insane field of view of the 5000 ommatidia that make up the compound eyes of a bee!

Collect nectar from the flowers and return it to the hive without crashing or getting eaten by birds.

HOW TO PLAY

HOW TO FLY

1. WASD or arrow keys to turn and fly around (inverted controls)
2. Space Bar to accelerate (will return to normal speed when released)

HOW TO WIN

The purpose of the game is to collect nectar from the sunflowers (fly through them) and return it to the bee hive (fly through it).  Can you find the hive?  Fill the hive with nectar to win. 

HOW TO DIE

1. Flying into trees and cliffs.  In reality, bees are pretty clumsy fliers especially when the are at full nectar carrying capacity, and they can easily bounce off stuff without hurting themselves too bad.  But in this game you'll die.  You CAN fly through the ground bushes... but not the trees.  Maybe some trees. We only had 72 hours.

2. Birds!  If you get too close to a bird you'll hear it squeal and attack you.  You can loose the bird by flying behind an obstacle (tree, cliff, bush) so it loose line of sight to you.  You can also fly through bushes, or just fly low to the ground to lose the bird.

CREDITS

Inspiration

• Cupertino Game Dev Club and Melon Jam 6, and the theme of course! "Compound"

3D Assets

• KayKit Forest Nature Pack ( https://kaylousberg.itch.io/kaykit-forest) by Kay Lousberg (CC0)
• "Sunflower" (https://skfb.ly/69oAN) by zvanstone (CC0)
• "Bee (Low Poly)" (https://skfb.ly/o9XvJ) by EsiHere (CC-BY)
• "Bee Hive" (https://skfb.ly/ouWtO) by ScienceTle (CC-BY)

2D Assets

• UI Pack - Adventure (https://kenney.nl/assets/ui-pack-adventure) by Kenney (CC0)

Sounds

• Bee Flying Loop: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/bee-flying-loop-42287/
• Bee Hive (CC0): https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/567548/
• Bird Call (CC0):  https://freesound.org/people/Jofae/sounds/361470/s
• Splat (CC0)s: https://freesound.org/people/nebulasnails/sounds/495117/
• Nature Sound (CC-BY): https://freesound.org/people/naturesoundspa/sounds/163597/
• Slurp (CC0): Slurp: https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/444493/
• Wing flap (CC0): https://freesound.org/people/designerschoice/sounds/811528/s

Research

•  Insect Vision Part 4: What do Insects See?

•  How Bees See and Why it Matters (https://beeculture.com/bees-see-matters/) by Sharla Riddles

•  Simulating Bee Vision (https://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/inf/groups/ag-ki/Theses/Completed-theses/Bachelor-theses/2017/Polster/BA-Polster-small.pdf) by Johannes Polster... just kidding! We faked it all as best we could, but I did bookmarks this in case we ever wanted to expand on the game and make it a more accurate simulation!

• Hexagons are the bestagons.