Hive Time

Devlog

• World Bee Day 2024 & v1.2-149, v1.2-150 changelogs
  May 20, 2024 by Cheeseness

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  #world bee day, #patch

  May 20th is World Bee Day! As usual, here's a little patch to celebrate with some new tweaks and additions. The game now has Find Your Own Fun (FYOF) options for auto-progressing events without player... Continue reading

  
• Happy 4th beethday, Hive Time!
  December 12, 2023 by Cheeseness

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  Hive Time turns 4 years old today! Time flies like a bee. Or something. To celebrate, I've put together a wee patch that adds an in-game music player and a new chat command. Music player I had wanted... Continue reading

  
• World Bee Day 2023 & v1.2-138, v1.2-139 changelogs
  May 20, 2023 by Cheeseness

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  My 20th is World Bee Day! As usual, here's a little patch to celebrate with a couple of tweaks and some small content additions! On the content front, we have 6 new vignettes, some new art for the Gon... Continue reading

  
• Happy 3rd beethday and v1.2-129 changelog
  December 12, 2022 by Cheeseness

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  Happy Beethday, Hive Time! It's hard to believe it's been three years already. To celebrate, I've put together a nice, big patch that rolls up some new content, new foraging gameplay, new chat integra... Continue reading

  
• World Bee Day and v1.2-118, v1.2-119 changelogs
  May 20, 2022 by Cheeseness

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  This patch initially had a possible crash when a chat bee enters the conga line while asleep. This has been hotfixed in v1.2-119. Apologies to anybody affected! May 20th is World Bee Day! To celebrate... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-100 changelog
  January 02, 2022 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz, and welcome to 2022! Today's patch contains a number of miscellaneous fixes and tweaks, most notably addressing a possible crash when trying to look at the activity notification for a new Q... Continue reading

  
• Hive Time turns 2, and v1.2-95, v1.2-96 changelog
  December 15, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  This patch initially had a possible crash when starting a new hive with a new Queen with Royal Decrees. This has been hotfixed in v1.2-96. Apologies to anybody affected! Greetings, fellow bee friends!... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-78 changelog
  September 26, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's small patch brings a new Queen hat to celebrate the release of my newest game, Bat Egg . It also includes a new Throne Room vignette, enables high DPI support, and fixes a small bug... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-76 & v.12-77 changelog
  June 05, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's patch includes a bunch of cool stuff and misc fixes that didn't quite make it into the recent World Bee Day patch . This patch initially had a possible crash when viewing the Queen... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-67, v1.2-68 changelog & World Bee Day 2021
  May 19, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! In anticipation of World Bee Day (which has already begun in New Zealand at the time of writing!), here's a special patch. It's not quite an "update" on the scale of the Informational Updat... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-43 changelog & 50,000 downloads!
  March 21, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! As of yesterday afternoon, Hive Time has been downloaded over 50,000 times. That's far more than I ever expected or planned for! Thanks to everybody who played Hive Time... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-41 changelog
  March 17, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today brings a fairly hefty patch full of misc tweaks and fixes. I've updated the presentation of Queen effects (from the Royal Decrees upgrade) a little bit. Once a Queen with effects has... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-26 changelog
  January 05, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's patch includes a fix for a crash that could occur during cells destruction in some cases that was introduced in v1.2-23. Apologies to anybody negatively affected... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-24 changelog
  January 02, 2021 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's patch includes a quick fix for a possible crash when viewing the Production screen. Enjoy! Full changelog: Fixed crash when viewing production screen... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-23 changelog & new trailer
  December 31, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow friends-to-bees! One last patch to close the year out, and this one comes with a new trailer! I had the idea for this trailer before what would eventually be the Hiveversary Update T... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-9 changelog
  December 25, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! A small QOL patch today with a couple of new items. The Beepedia now has a page explaining the "chat users" resource. It's brief, but hopefully clears up any confusion about what that is fr... Continue reading

  
• v1.2-6 & v1.2-7 changelogs
  December 15, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today brings two patches, the first with a very quick fix for a crash inadvertently caused by some of the object leak fixes in the v1.2-5 hotfix. The second patch also f... Continue reading

  
• v1.2: The Hiveversary Update
  December 11, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Once again, today is a special day. Not only is it one year to the day since Hive Time's release, but the game has also received a celebratory update! Here's a new trail... Continue reading

  
• Money for the Honey (a look at Hive Time's finances and pay-what-you-want pricing)
  October 26, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  #fiancials, #article

  In Beecember last year, I released a bee-themed management simulator called Hive Time . For this project, I was in a position to commit to pay-what-you-want pricing. Now that the game's been out for a... Continue reading

  
• v1.1-54 changelog
  September 05, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's patch brings in a handful of typo fixes, and some fixes for funky positioning edge cases. Following a bug report of Queens moving upward, I unveiled a bunch of e... Continue reading

  
• v1.1-51 changelog
  August 31, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's patch is a tiny one, containing a typo fix, and fixes for a couple of edge case bugs when using the Customise Any Bee FYOF option. That didn't feel like enough, so I've also popped... Continue reading

  
• v1.1-46 & v1.1-48 changelogs
  August 12, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's patch adds some new Queen animations, a new "find your own fun" option for Queen lifespans, a button that opens reference URLs for Beepedia facts, and a bunch of... Continue reading

  
• v1.1-30 changelog
  June 29, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's patch includes an engine upgrade and a number of other small fixes. With Godot 3.2.2 released a couple of days ago, I wanted to get a build out as quickly as possible, as this engin... Continue reading

  
• v1.1-24 changelog
  June 11, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's update addresses the glaring omission of tooltips for settings in the main menu! When starting a new game, or visiting any of the settings screen, hovering over... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-28, v1.1-20, v1.1-21 & v1.1-22 changelogs
  May 23, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! This post rounds up several minor patches that have shipped since the Informational Update went live. The main fix and biggest spanner in the works has revolved around the new version check... Continue reading

  
• v1.1: The Informational Update
  May 20, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today is a special day. Not only is it World Bee Day, but Hive Time has just received an exciting update! Phil, Tracy, and the team will tell you all about this breaking... Continue reading

  
• Inspirations and Influences
  February 15, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  #inspirations, #article

  From time to time I've been asked how I came up with Hive Time. While there are many of parts of the game that I think primarily came from my own or Mim's imagination, no substantial work is ever crea... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-22 & v1.0-23 & v1.0-24 changelog
  February 13, 2020 by Cheeseness

  Hello, bee friends! Today's patch includes load time improvements and an engine version upgrade. The change that's likely to matter most to players is a change to how the most common game assets are l... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-19 changelog
  January 25, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! A small bundle of fixes today, mostly focusing around updates and tweaks to events and tutorials. A final tutorial has been added to clarify that after the tutorial requirements have been c... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-18 changelog
  January 12, 2020 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update includes a number of small quality-of-life improvements, particularly in the foraging screen, which now gives greater visual emphasis to unexplored zones. Today also marks th... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-15 changelog
  December 28, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Here comes a Hive Time update! Today's update adds a little prompt to get people interacting with bees when in Inspect Mode (to help avoid the assumption that it's just for pausing), which also provid... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-14 changelog
  December 26, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's update includes a number of miscellaneous fixes/tweaks, the most noteworthy of which is a new tutorial at the very beginning introducing the game's basic control... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-12 changelog
  December 21, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update features a number of minor fixes and tweaks. My favourite is a new event image that Mim and I collaborated on, which appears within the "Moist banditos" event chain. There ar... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-11 changelog
  December 19, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Another small update today, which brings in an in-game screenshot option that takes a 1920x1080 screenshot (regardless of the resolution of the game window) of your hive without any HUD. If... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-10 changelog
  December 17, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's update focuses on fixes for some corner cases. I'd normally leave these sorts of things for a larger patch, but since a couple had caused crashes in the wild, I... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-9 changelog
  December 17, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  It's time for another Hive Time update! A comparatively small update today that adds in some more visual indicators for progress and state - this time, for Nursery and Barracks cells. Internally, I've... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-7 changelog
  December 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update includes a couple of minor additions, the most important of which is a small indicator on exit cells to show their usage/capacity and reinforce the "three bees per cell" rule... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-2 changelog
  December 13, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee friends! A small update today with some misc tweaks. The most noteworthy of which is a confirmation prompt when deleting or overwriting saves. Currently it's a bit quick and dirt... Continue reading

  
• v1.0-1 changelog
  December 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  #patch notes

  Buzz buzz! A quick post-release patch this afternoon to address a couple of bugs (and slip in a couple of nice-to-haves that slipped off the end of my todo list this morning, like a bar for the new sc... Continue reading

  
• Hive Time is available now!
  December 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  #announcement

  It's high time for Hive Time! The cute and zany hivebuilder that myself, Mim , and Peter have been working on this year is now available! Build a hive, make some honey. Meet slug mobsters, rampaging w... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-12 (preview-196)
  December 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! It's time for release! Here's the release candidate build, landing very hot with 18 minutes on the clock. Unless I spot anything super soon, this will be the 1.0 release version. Enjoy! Ful... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-11 (preview-193 & preview-194)
  December 11, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Only one more sleep till Hive Time comes out! Today's update includes some new Queen portrait art painted by our friend Aubrey Serr from 12 East Games . As release closed in, painting new art for Quee... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-10 (preview-191)
  December 10, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Among other tings, today's update brings in a whole stack of new event images! If you're the kind of person who likes to tinker, the game's json files are now exposed as plain files that ca... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-09 (preview-189)
  December 08, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! An early update today with a number of miscellaneous fixes and additions. Enjoy! Full changelog: Added activity notification for when foraging zones are automatically deselected Added activ... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-07 (preview-188)
  December 07, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  It's time once again for another Hive Time update! I spent the couple of days travelling and used the time I wasn't driving to address some small scope/quality of life issues. The most immediately obv... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-05 (preview-184)
  December 05, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! A quick update today with several new event/effect images. Enjoy! Full changelog: Added new event image for 'Midlife crisis' event Added new event image for 'A helpful hand' event Added new... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-04 (preview-183)
  December 04, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, bee friends! Today's update has new event images for the "Step right up" event and the "They do look pretty cool" event, with the latter's Defender bee being drawn by Mim. There are also a... Continue reading

  
• 2019-12-02 (release date & preview-182)
  December 02, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! At last, Hive Time finally has a release date. On Beecember the 12th, the full game is going to be out, and I'll be getting some sleep. Win-win! I've spent the past couple of days focused o... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-29 (preview-181)
  November 29, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings conflict warnings to Binder, and further implementation of InputMap actions across the game. At the moment, the population, defence, production, activity, resources, r... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-28 (preview-180)
  November 28, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Good evening, fellow bee lovers! Today's update brings in a couple of big changes. The most important of which is a first pass on custom key/mouse button bindings. To get this up and happening, I wrot... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-26 (preview-179)
  November 26, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Another update full of miscellaneous bits and bobs today. The most noticeable one is probably the addition of more themed widgets in the main menu. I still have to make scrollbars look nice... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-25 (preview-178)
  November 25, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Good evening, fellow bee friends! Today's update brings in a new camera option that tilts the camera as it zooms in, getting up close and personal with bees and giving a better view of their hats (som... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-24 (preview-176)
  November 24, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings in a feature that I've had planned since before we started development. One of the core concepts of Hive Time is about the fluidity of populations over time and the tr... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-23 (preview-175)
  November 23, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Tiny update today, as I spent most of the day on other projects, and spent most of my Hive Time time doing concept art for event images. The main change in this update is limiting the camer... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-22 (preview-174)
  November 22, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  At last, a Hive Time update! There are a couple of noteworthy bits and bobs in today's update. The biggest (for me) is an overhaul of how environmental sounds (crickets, birds, etc.) are handled. Prev... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-21 (preview-172)
  November 21, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello bee friends! Small update today with a bunch of misc fixes/tweaks. Biggest change is having a toggle to enable debug shortcuts/cheats. Currently this also displays a pretty clunky menu, but I'll... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-20 (preview-171)
  November 20, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Today brings in some big changes to the main menu! Clicking "New Hive" now shows a menu with game-specific options, mostly comprising of things that don't make sense to set per-game like "s... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-19 (preview-170)
  November 19, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, bee friends! It's new hat Tuesday! Beesitters get three new hats and Builders get one more. This gives every role except Queens three non-default hats for use by special bees. There are also a... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-18 (preview-169)
  November 18, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Several new hats for special bees today, as well as a proper implementation for the generic events that I pulled out for the last build. Enjoy! Full changelog: Added earmuffs hat for specia... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-17 (preview-168)
  November 17, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Greetings, bee friends! Another mixed bag of updates today! Special Builders now have a welding helmet that they can wear (and hopefully see through), and the "A new Queen arises" event now has images... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-16 (preview-165)
  November 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz buzz buzz! Today's update has a whole stack of stuff! Six new hats are available to give to special bees (three for Workers, three for Defenders). These only have cosmetic value, but they're... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-15 (preview-163)
  November 15, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Another update with misc fixes from today's dev stream . Enjoy Full changelog: Updated production facility upgrade research times Updated production facility upgrade construction costs Fixe... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-14 (preview-161)
  November 14, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello bee lovers! Today's update brings in a bunch of misc fixes and small tweaks. I've spent the past couple of days taking it easy and having a break after the big push of the past week or two. Plan... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-12 (preview-159)
  November 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update has a bunch of misc tweaks and fixes. Turns out that yesterday's attempt at tackling Worker bees not prioritising construction wasn't as thorough as I'd hoped. This should pr... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-11 (preview-158)
  November 11, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hello hive friends! Today's update has some quick bug fixes and optimisations for hive destruction/decay stuff, as well as a fix for a regression of Worker-bees-not-prioritisng-building-until-there's-... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-10 (preview-156 & preview-157)
  November 10, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings in what is (unless I come up with some high impact/low scope stuff before release) the last gameplay feature I'll be adding. Cells that are disconnected from the hive... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-09 (preview-155)
  November 09, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Bees, bees, bees Today's update adds special bees (internally I've been calling them "hero bees," but that's marginally gross terminology I picked up way back when I worked in the retail industry). Th... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-08 (preview-154)
  November 08, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hello, bee friends! Today's update is superficially small, but kinda big on the inside. The main feature is the population slider locks that are enabled by building upgraded Nurseries, Workshops, Barr... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-07 (preview-152)
  November 07, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings in upgraded resource facilities! Upgraded Wax Assemblers, Honey Refineries, and Jelly Refineries provide a speed boost to Workers carrying resources away to store, or... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-05 (preview-151)
  November 05, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, fellow bee lovers! Today's update adds a new research option for building multiple empty cells at once, making mid/late game hive expansion a bit less click intensive. When selected, the ce... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-04 (preview-150)
  November 04, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi friends! Today's update brings in some changes to the event handling system, giving it more granular control over how frequently certain types of events occur. This should increase the frequency th... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-03 (preview-148 & preview-149)
  November 03, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Today's update adds a new research option for deriving extra benefits (and maybe a drawback or two) from future Queens. This is a late game thing I've had bouncing around in the back of my... Continue reading

  
• 2019-11-01 (preview-144 & preview-145)
  November 01, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Welcome to November! Upgraded Barracks are here, rounding out upgrades for all of the role-specific cells. These have double the radius of non-upgraded Barracks, making the hive easier to cover with f... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-31 (preview-142 & preview-143)
  October 31, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Get ready for upgraded nurseries! These 4 cell upgrades give a significant boost to population limits and have a 20% chance to spawn twins. I have plans for adding some extra things to upgr... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-29 (preview-141)
  October 29, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hark, a Hive Time update. Today's update brings in a first pass on the production screen, which charts resources produced and available storage space over time. There are also some indicators to help... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-28 (preview-140)
  October 27, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Today's update adds a first pass on keyboard shortcuts for radial menus. Eventually I'd like to use an underscore to indicate shortcut keys (like traditional mnemonic shortcut indicators),... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-27 (preview-139)
  October 27, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi friends! Today's update includes all the late changes I made in the lead up to exhibiting at Kid I Am yesterday. All cells now have info screen background images (some of them probably need a bit m... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-24 (prevew-135)
  October 24, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hello, hive friends! Today's update brings in a bunch of changes to the tutorial system! Tutorials now have an activity indicator (botton left of the HUD) with some details about the currently active... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-22 (preview-131)
  October 22, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Comparatively small update today that reworks some of the Defender deployment behaviour. Instead of using a slider to set the amount of Defenders you want to immediately deploy, the slider... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-20 (preview-130)
  October 20, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Today's update brings in more defence mechanics and the long awaited foraging screen, which means that with the exception of exits, every cell in the hive exposes some kind of inte... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-11 (preview-124 & preview-125)
  October 11, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings in some new features for inspecting and keeping track of bees. When in "inspect bee mode" (space or the button middle bottom of the screen), clicking on a bee will now... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-09 (preview-121 & preview-123)
  October 09, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hey hive friends! Super small update today to fix a problem with foragers not dying in preview-120. I also added in a fix for a case where Worker bees would not progress below Builder behaviour when c... Continue reading

  
• 2019-10-07 (preview-120)
  October 07, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz! Another slow week for published updates, but a pretty productive week for me. The biggest addition in this build is the new Bee Activity screen, which allows the id... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-29 (preview-117)
  September 29, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi, friends! Small update today with a bunch of misc fixes as well as some optimisations. Late game performance is something that I'm concerned about, and as the game gets closer to release, I'll like... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-27 (preview-112)
  September 27, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Another slow week, hopefully coming out of the cold/migraine/funk storm I managed to find myself in this month (fingers crossed!). Today's update brings in new event images for the vinehopp... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-22 (preview-111)
  September 22, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hello hive friends! Unfortunately, it's been another difficult week for time/energy/motivation, but today's update includes a bunch of fun changes. First up, there's a fix for the crash that was occur... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-13 (preview-108)
  September 13, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi hi! Today's update adds a cooldown for spawning new Queens. It's currently set to half a Queen's lifespan, which means that you'll never have more than two Queens in the hive at a time. I might red... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-11 (preview-107)
  September 11, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, hive friends! Unfortunately, over the past few weeks my productivity has taken a big dive. While failing to fend off colds, migraines, and some other less pleasant things, I managed to get a fe... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-06 (preview-106)
  September 06, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! A quick little update today with some new assets. In addition to new building info/vignette images for Honey Refineries and Jelly Refineries, we also have a new background music track from... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-04 (preview-105)
  September 04, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hi friends! Today's update includes a number of miscellaneous fixes and a few minor additions. The new construction and demolition sounds are intended to be placeholders, but if anybody has feedback o... Continue reading

  
• 2019-09-01 (preview-102 & preview-103)
  September 01, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! It's the first day of spring, hurrah! Bees in the Southern Hemisphere will be getting more active as more flowers wake from their winter slumber. Exciting times for bee friends! The biggest... Continue reading

  
• 2019-08-28 (preview-99)
  August 28, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi friends! Tiny update today with a couple of small misc fixes. Enjoy! Full changelog: Fixed typo in 'Gone as quickly as they came' event reported by Chiitoo Fixed Builder slider and population HUD i... Continue reading
• 2019-08-26 (preview-98)
  August 26, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi friends! Apologies for the delay in updates. I've been away attending a farewell for a studio I worked with, which recently shut down development . Defiant were a beacon of inspiration for much of... Continue reading
• 2019-08-21 (preview-96)
  August 21, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Super small update today with a coupld of misc tweaks. Exhibiting at MakerX went well for the most part, barring some initial technical hurdles that turned out to be temp warnings causing m... Continue reading
• 2019-08-17 (preview-95)
  August 17, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi friends! Quick music update today, which brings in a music track for the vinehopper science chain, and menu music! Here are some thoughts from Peter, which highlight that the vinehopper science cha... Continue reading
• 2019-08-16 (preview-93)
  August 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hark! An update! The big star of today's update is diagetic/environmental audio. At the moment, these present as buzzing sounds for individual bees and outdoor birds/crickets/etc. that become louder a... Continue reading
• 2019-08-14 (preview-91)
  August 14, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi hi! Quick update to fix a possible crash when upgrading storage cells (spotted during today's dev stream ). Also resolves vignettes not displaying when events are disabled, and restores the placeho... Continue reading
• 2019-08-13 (preview-90)
  August 13, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi hive friends! Today's update breaks a half-week-long drought with a bunch of new stuff! Most notably, a Defence screen has been added (accessible from the Barracks), which gives an overview of the... Continue reading

  
• 2019-08-09 (preview-84)
  August 09, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hive five o/ Today's update brings in (at long last) an updated Wax Assembler model that more closely matches other production facilities. The new Wax Assembler has animations as well, so it's now eas... Continue reading

  
• 2019-08-08 (preview-82)
  August 08, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update brings in a bunch of misc fixes - me cleaning up some old todo items spread scross the codebase while working on bigger features. Most of these are cosmetic and increase the... Continue reading
• 2019-08-07 (preview-81)
  August 07, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hey hive friends! Super small update today to fix a couple of bugs highlighted during a recent stream. The big one is a proper resolution to the lingering issue of vertical keyboard panning (turns out... Continue reading
• 2019-08-06 (preview-80)
  August 06, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! As a belated birthday activity, I just spent a few days away at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. A bit cold for any bees, but still lovely nonetheless. In addition to trapsing around the d... Continue reading
• 2019-08-03 (preview-77)
  August 03, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hi hi hi hi! The big change in todays update is additional checks for workers before they start production. Previously, if resource levels were below capacity, workers would rush to start producing mo... Continue reading

  
• 2019-08-02 (preview-76)
  August 02, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz buzz! A bunch of minor fixes and some refactoring in today's update, primarily focused on refactoring the handling of cell construction and destruction. Population and storage values should... Continue reading
• 2019-07-31 Build (preview-74)
  July 31, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Hello, hive friends! It's been a little while since the last update. I've been working away at some larger features that have taken a bit longer to come together. Coupled with having a birthday and so... Continue reading
• 2019-07-22 Build (preview-71)
  July 22, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update adds a new model to make it possible to visually identify upgraded workshops (model isn't final, just needed to get something in there), and brings in some new role-specific... Continue reading
• 2019-07-21 Build (preview-66)
  July 21, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello hive friends! 50 years and a few hours ago, a pair of humans stomped around on our natural satellite for the first time. To celebrate, today's update includes new art for the ninja fruit flies e... Continue reading

  
• 2019-07-19 Build (preview-64)
  July 19, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Greetings, fellow normal everyday totally-not-a-robot bees! Let us together express our normal everyday appreciation for regular nectar, pollen and honey to reinforce our identities as mundane normal... Continue reading
• 2019-07-13 Build (preview-62)
  July 18, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Greetings, fellow bee friends! Today's update adds some new vignette content and a bunch of cosmetic changes for better readability of construction and research related stuff. Enjoy! Full changelog: A... Continue reading
• 2019-07-13 Build (preview-58)
  July 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hey hey hey! Today's update finally brings in research related tutorials and tweaks up some of the other tutorial text. Hopefully, the difference between cell "slots" for concurrent bees using a parti... Continue reading
• 2019-07-13 Build (preview-55)
  July 15, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! Today's update adds a bunch of UI tweaks that hopefully help make a few things readable that were previously... less readable. The biggest addition is a transparent preview of construction... Continue reading
• 2019-07-13 Build (preview-50)
  July 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz, bee friends! Today's update brings in the first WIP track from Peter "KestrelPi" Silk , who's recently switched focus to bring his composition skills to Hive Time. Here are some cool words... Continue reading
• 2019-07-10 Build (preview-48)
  July 10, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello bee friends! Today's update brings a whole bunch of particle effects that make tracking bee activity a bit easier. Their lifecycles are a bit more pronounced by spawn and death effects, and effe... Continue reading
• 2019-07-08 Build (preview-47)
  July 08, 2019 by Cheeseness

  It's that time again! Today's update includes a bunch of UI tweaks for effect and activity indicators (you can watch me work on that and most of the rest of this update in the archive of today's dev s... Continue reading
• 2019-07-07 Build (preview-45)
  July 07, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hark, what's that? It's the lovely sound of a Hive Time update! Audio is finally here! Recently, I bought KestrelPi on board as a composer for Hive Time, and in preparation for getting some of his wor... Continue reading
• 2019-07-06 Build (preview-44)
  July 06, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, hive friends! Obstacles are finally here! Construction is now inhibited by a bunch of large and small obstacles that will (hopefully) invite more planning. There are some adjacency requirements... Continue reading

  
• 2019-07-03 Build (preview-43)
  July 03, 2019 by Cheeseness

  High five, Hive Timers! A quick little update to fix a construction menu bug where build options were being displayed regardless of whether they'd been researched or not. I also added an effect to the... Continue reading
• 2019-07-01 Build (preview-42)
  July 01, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Good day bee friends, and welcome to the second half of 2019! After a week wrapping up some other work , I'm back onto Hive Time now. I spent last night finishing the initial implementation of the bui... Continue reading
• 2019-06-22 Build (preview-41)
  June 22, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Small update today with some adjustments to research timing and fixes for end-game bugs that I probably should've spotted sooner. I've been looking at a bunch more research stuff that's not enabled ye... Continue reading
• 2019-06-18 Build (preview-40)
  June 19, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Buzz buzz! Today's update focuses primarily on bringing icons into effect, activity and event descriptions. These are still a work-in-progress, particularly in the case of activity and effect detail p... Continue reading
• 2019-06-16 Build (preview-37)
  June 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hey, friends Finally managed to squeeze out a first pass on the research system. In this iteration, only nurseries, workshops, wax assemblers, exits, nectar storage, and pollen storage cells are able... Continue reading

  
• 2019-06-12 Build (preview-36)
  June 12, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello bee friends! Apologies for the slight gap in updates. Some unfortunate news sapped my motivation for a few days, but I'm back now with some good forward progress on a couple of fronts. Firstly,... Continue reading

  
• 2019-06-08 Build (preview-34)
  June 08, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Helloooooooo beeeeeeeeeeee friendssssssssss Today's update includes a few bits of menu polish as well as some bug fixes. There are now configuration options for antialiasing and depth of field, so you... Continue reading
• 2019-06-06 Build (preview-33)
  June 06, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Attention hive friends! Another menu focused update today, though I've also added fixes for a bunch of issues during gameplay. The star (or hexagon) of today's update is the cool new transition from t... Continue reading
• 2019-06-05 Build (preview-32)
  June 05, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! A small update that fixes a crash when pausing production of a Wax Assembler that has bees working on it. This update also fixes the autosave setting not saving properly and defaulting to f... Continue reading
• 2019-06-04 Build (preview-31)
  June 04, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hi friends! Small UI focused update today, this time adding "activity icons" that allow you to zoom to active vignettes or locations of recent events (not sure where Old Bitey got your hive? Now you c... Continue reading
• 2019-06-03 Build (preview-30)
  June 03, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Super quick update this morning that addresses potential crashes when starting the game with the fullscreen setting enabled and when visiting the load screen with no saved games. Full changelog: Defer... Continue reading
• 2019-06-02 Build (preview-29)
  June 02, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, friends! Another primarily menu focused update today, adding options for saving/loading multiple save files, as well as persistent settings for fullscreen and autosaving (S now triggers an auto... Continue reading
• 2019-06-01 Build (preview-27)
  May 31, 2019 by Cheeseness

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  Greetings, hive friends! Over the past week or so, I took a break from Hive Time to work on a side-project. As part of a talk I gave last week on making games in Godot, I needed a small example projec... Continue reading
• 2019-05-21 Build (preview-20)
  May 21, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, bee friends! A small update today with a couple of changes. The two biggest ones that will affect gameplay are that the cell pattern for Honey Refineries has changed (the Jelly Refinery hasn't... Continue reading
• 2019-05-20 Build (preview-17)
  May 19, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Here it is! The big change I've been holding off on doing until I knew I had a good block of time to do it. We now have the radial context menus for cells that I'd envisioned the game having at the st... Continue reading
• 2019-05-18 Build (preview-14)
  May 18, 2019 by Cheeseness

  A short changelog for a whole bunch of work! Saving and loading functionality is finally in (although there's no main menu to drive it, so you're stuck with shortcuts for now)! This particular task at... Continue reading
• 2019-05-16 Build (preview-11)
  May 16, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hey hive friends! Today's update brings a bunch of bugfixes and a few bits of new visual feedback into the game. Role capacities are now displayed on the population HUD (you can toggle the population... Continue reading
• 2019-05-14 Build (preview-8)
  May 14, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Still had some mouse over event weirdness going on in preview-7 with cells bouncing up and down real fast. This is now 100% totally for sure really truly fixed now (if it happens again, let me know)!... Continue reading
• 2019-05-14 Build (preview-6 and 7)
  May 14, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hi people! The Preview-6 build had some dodginess when mousing over cells, so apologies to anybody who got that. Preview-7 should now be live, and (including changes from Preview-6) adds the ability t... Continue reading
• 2019-05-13 Preview Patch
  May 13, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Buzz buzz! A new build is up with a bunch of changes, mostly focused on HUD improvements (note that there's still a bunch of temp stuff, and that's why the bottom HUD isn't centred properly!) and bee... Continue reading
• 2019-05-11 Preview Patch 2
  May 11, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Another small patch for today. This should resolve crashes caused when destroying multi cell buildings, and when events (like Bear Attack) cause multi cell buildings to be destroyed. I've also added a... Continue reading
• 2019-05-11 Preview Patch
  May 10, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hello, bee friends! A small Hive Time update today with a new HUD, some extra tutorials, and a bunch of misc fixes. Note that costs for producing Wax, Honey and Jelly are now exposed as tooltips when... Continue reading
• Test builds available to Patreon supporters
  May 09, 2019 by Cheeseness

  Hi friends! I've spent the past week or so sanding away at Hive Time's rough edges. It still needs a bit of work before I can feel comfortable doing a public release, but it should be playable now wit... Continue reading