Fight of the Spelling Bee

An action word puzzle game with RPG elements. Help Beatrice the Bee to defend herself against her enemies by finding the best words on a honeycomb board as quickly as possible. Inspired by games like Boggle and Spelling Bee.

STORY:

To bee or not to bee, that is the question. Unfortunately, as their natural habitats are threatened, the latter answer seems more and more likely with every day.

The bees decide they must act and send brave scouts to find new territories to live in. Meet Beatrice, one of these scout bees looking for places to settle down all over the land.

Unfortunately, not everyone she meets greets her with warm welcomes. Some animals are not ready to share their habitats with outsiders, scared of becoming an endangered species themselves.

These animals will try their best to stop Beatrice from achieving her mission. The only thing Beatrice can do is to fight back. Fight back with words.

FEATURES:

• An action word puzzle game with full support for English and German.
• Beautiful hand-painted artwork.
• Fight 25 enemies, each of them with unique abilities that will keep you on your toes.
• Travel through 5 worlds in the game's campaign mode.
• 10 flowers that can be collected and will help you on your quest.
• See how long you can survive in the endless mode. Our high score is 13, can you do better?
• An intuitive and completely optional in-game tutorial that lets you get more information about the inner workings of the game, but doesn't stop you from jumping right into the action.
• A monster compendium containing all the enemies you have encountered, as well as those you haven't yet.
• This is a labour of love and will remain free-to-play and ad-free. (I guess if you really want to support us, you could buy us a cup of tea, though)

CREDITS:

• We are using various sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com/.
• The main menu music (Flight of the Bumblebee) was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and performed by the US Army Band.
• For the English dictionary, we are using the ENABLE word list (of which I can't find the primary source online anymore).
• The German word list is maintained by enz: https://github.com/enz/german-wordlist.
• We are using the following fonts from Google Fonts:
  • Oswald by Vernon Adams, Kalapi Gajjar and Cyreal
  • Eczar by Rosetta and Vaibhav Singh
  • Tilt Prism by Andy Clymer
• Everything else was made by my girlfriend and me.

OBLIGATORY PERSONAL NOTES:

This is a project that girfriend and I had been wanting to do for a while and we finally used the mobile mania jam to tackle it. While it's still not exactly perfect, this is by far the most polished game we have published yet. We hope you enjoy and we'll gladly hear any feedback you have that will help us improve the game :)