Prompt 2: When first playing this game, I enjoy that there are other ‘automated’ bees flying around the borders of the canvas. While continuing to play and explore the options for drawing, such as the different sizes and shapes of the yellow honeycomb, I was quick to make the canvas messy. Thankfully, there is a clear canvas button, however, clearing the canvas also gets rid of the other bees, with no way of getting them back. Thus, something I would really want to do is have some way to add them back, or even further, add more than the original two. This way I could have an incomprehensible swarm of little bees all over the place, in which, I think, being able to create chaos would be fun. It is arguable that just being able to spawn endless bees would be destructive, offering no real addition to the actual drawing on the canvas, and perhaps even leading to the overall crashing of the program (though that is sometimes fun too), but, if things were to get too out of hand, the player could always use the clear button; but as a constructive thought, I would also want for the other bees to be able to place their own honeycomb as well, perhaps in unison with my own input, or even randomly, then it could feel that the player is part of a whole hive of bees that is working together to reconstruct their home. However, understandably, the implementation of these things is easier said than done.
prompt3: The graphics and purpose of the game make me feel that this is a game rather than a tool. First of all, the player controls a big bee. This bee has a detailed image so that I can immediately know that it is a bee and he is building a nest. There are also little bees flying over the corners of the screen, which creates a sense of atmosphere. The player will naturally feel that he is operating a bee in the colony and build the nest together. Every time player clicks the mouse, the wings of the big bee will move, which improves the interactive experience of the game. At the same time, there is a text description at the top of the screen, telling me that the player's goal is to help this bee rebuild his nest. Here comes the goal of the game. So I naturally started trying to complete the goal of the game. The author added the ability to change the size of each honeycomb, so players can choose to build nests with hexagons of different sizes. This seems to be a difficulty option, which also distinguishes it as a game from a tool. But after trying different sizes, I found that it is difficult to build a nice nest on every difficulty(size) because I can only estimate the position of each hexagon before clicking. At first, this distance is very difficult to master, after playing a few times, you will gradually become familiar with it and build a slightly better-looking nest. So I start telling myself a story that I am a new bee who is learning how to build a nest.
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Prompt 2: When first playing this game, I enjoy that there are other ‘automated’ bees flying around the borders of the canvas. While continuing to play and explore the options for drawing, such as the different sizes and shapes of the yellow honeycomb, I was quick to make the canvas messy. Thankfully, there is a clear canvas button, however, clearing the canvas also gets rid of the other bees, with no way of getting them back. Thus, something I would really want to do is have some way to add them back, or even further, add more than the original two. This way I could have an incomprehensible swarm of little bees all over the place, in which, I think, being able to create chaos would be fun. It is arguable that just being able to spawn endless bees would be destructive, offering no real addition to the actual drawing on the canvas, and perhaps even leading to the overall crashing of the program (though that is sometimes fun too), but, if things were to get too out of hand, the player could always use the clear button; but as a constructive thought, I would also want for the other bees to be able to place their own honeycomb as well, perhaps in unison with my own input, or even randomly, then it could feel that the player is part of a whole hive of bees that is working together to reconstruct their home. However, understandably, the implementation of these things is easier said than done.
prompt3: The graphics and purpose of the game make me feel that this is a game rather than a tool. First of all, the player controls a big bee. This bee has a detailed image so that I can immediately know that it is a bee and he is building a nest. There are also little bees flying over the corners of the screen, which creates a sense of atmosphere. The player will naturally feel that he is operating a bee in the colony and build the nest together. Every time player clicks the mouse, the wings of the big bee will move, which improves the interactive experience of the game. At the same time, there is a text description at the top of the screen, telling me that the player's goal is to help this bee rebuild his nest. Here comes the goal of the game. So I naturally started trying to complete the goal of the game. The author added the ability to change the size of each honeycomb, so players can choose to build nests with hexagons of different sizes. This seems to be a difficulty option, which also distinguishes it as a game from a tool. But after trying different sizes, I found that it is difficult to build a nice nest on every difficulty(size) because I can only estimate the position of each hexagon before clicking. At first, this distance is very difficult to master, after playing a few times, you will gradually become familiar with it and build a slightly better-looking nest. So I start telling myself a story that I am a new bee who is learning how to build a nest.