Hi everyone

A big part of Hive Quest game play involves competing with other hives deep within the woods. There are several ways this works - right now I'm working on the following methods for achieving victory over any enemy hives that stand in your way.

The night time pic above is a shot of a 'gene beacon'. Players can create them from pebbles & other stuff lying around with the aid of a Beacon Spell (the pink sphere - a magical ball the player's pet can conjure). Every time an enemy drone passes near your beacon you increase your influence over that drone's hive

The other pic below is a 'zealot' - you can use him as a spy to infiltrate an enemy hive and change its allegiance to favour yours. Be careful not to create too many though - as they'll get found out and killed by bugs from the enemy hive!

This competition between hives is something I have wanted to continue working on for a while. I set up the basic framework for this around a year ago and, now the demo is out, I will be pushing these game mechanics forward with an eye to completing the first game level The Old Orchard

You can grab the latest PC game demo via the Itch.io page HERE  

Any feedback would be awesome,

More game dev news coming shortly! Thanks for looking :)

Rod