Pollinator wip

[marblemad]

Introducing "Pollinator, 'Bee One' with Nature", my new vectrex game project.

Pollinator is based on an electromechanical arcade machine we built earlier in the year, which its self was inspired by Ice Cold Beer (which its self is based on a traditional pub game).


This is a very early preview of the basic game mechanic but my ambition here is to produce a fast, smooth, relatively simple game but with oodles of levels and animation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_HRRfJXWpg&feature=youtu.be

"Bee the Best". 

[jbrodack]

Cool it's based on the same game as Tumbleseed which I liked

[marblemad]

Oh, didn't know about TumbleSeed. Looks really nice.

[hcmffm]

Pollinator looks like a game which is fun to play, Jim. I'm not clear how you control the bar. But I could imagine that using a double Joystick controller like the MiniVex II for the left and right side of the bar might work very well. (Joystick up/down would lift/lower the appropriate side of the bar).

[pcenginefanx]

I recall someone bringing in an actual Ice Cold Beer electro-mechanical upright to the 2016 & 2017 California Extreme shows. It was cool to see an experienced player (and I assume the owner of it) whom showed off his mastery of it. In reality, it's not as easy to play as it looks (as it's quite a challenging mechanical game unto itself).

[nubiandaze]

Hi all,
It's amazing the ingenuity behind this, and other Vec games I have seen lately being made for the Vectrex.

Cheers,

Daniel.

[gauze]

Ice Cold Beer is a blast this is really cool!