About Beenvaders
It's an endless arcade game, and your score is the number of flowers you pollinate before your bee goes down.
Your bee fires on its own in a straight line at a steady pace, so this shooting game is really about where you move. The flowers fight back by shooting at you and charging at your bee. When your health hits zero, the run is over.
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Each run starts with your bee at the bottom of the screen and flowers appearing at the top. The longer you survive, the more flowers show up at once. After a while, flowers in new colors arrive, and they take more hits before they are pollinated.
Pollinated flowers sometimes drop power-ups. Hearts give back health, and bee pellets upgrade your projectiles. Later in a run the upgrades matter a lot, because the tougher flowers soak up shots that a basic bee can't keep up with.
Everything is drawn in pixel art. The flowers are big and take up a lot of space, while your bee is small, so slipping through gaps between flowers and their shots is your main defense.
The setup is that the natural world has changed and flowers have learned to fly and attack. Bees take up the fight so they can keep doing their job, and the game is built around the idea of how much nature depends on them, which makes it a good pick among animal games.
Quick summary
- Your bee starts at the bottom of the screen and flowers come down from the top.
- You move left and right while the bee shoots, pollinating each flower your shots take down.
- Over time more flowers appear, and new colored ones need several hits each.
- The run ends when your health drops to zero, and your score is how many flowers you pollinated.
Key features
- The bee shoots by itself, so you only control movement.
- Flowers attack with projectiles and by charging at your bee.
- Hearts dropped by flowers restore your health.
- Bee pellets upgrade your projectiles.
- There are no levels to clear, so every run is one long battle for a higher flower count.
Tips & tricks
- Keep moving toward the spots where the flowers are weakest so you always have an open path.
- Grab every bee pellet you can reach, since upgraded shots become necessary once the tougher colored flowers show up.
- Save some attention for hearts when your health gets low, because they are the only way to heal.
- Watch flowers that get close to your bee, as they can charge straight at you.
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