A downloadable Pollen Protector

Game Description

In this wave game, you will embody the skin of a bee that wants to protect the flowers of a garden from an invasion of insects that intend to feed on them. Using your stinger, you must withstand the maximum number of waves of insects that approach the garden as long as they do not eat the flowers and thus be able to feed your hive with their pollen.



How to Play

In Pollen Protector, you take on the role of a determined bee, committed to defending your garden from relentless swarms of enemies that threaten to destroy your precious flowers. Your goal is to keep your garden safe and your flowers blooming for as long as possible while also racking up the highest score you can!

Gameplay Overview

  • Protect Your Flowers: Each enemy that lingers near a flower will slowly destroy it. If you lose all your flowers, the game is over!
  • Score Points: Every enemy you defeat adds points to your score. Try to defeat as many as you can while keeping your flowers safe to maximize your score.

Enemies

In your quest to defend your garden, you will encounter three types of enemies:

  • Flying Insect: This enemy attacks from the air, shooting projectiles towards your flowers. Take them down quickly to prevent your flowers from being damaged.


  • Kamikaze Insect: This insect charges directly at you, aiming to collide. Stay on the move and destroy it before it reaches you!

  • Flower-Eating Insect: This enemy lands directly on the flowers and begins to consume them. If it stays too long, it will destroy the flower. Eliminate it as quickly as possible to keep your blooms safe.


Rewards & Bonuses

  • Multiplier Bonus: At the end of the game, your score is multiplied by the number of flowers still standing. The more flowers you save, the higher your score will soar!
  • New Flowers: As a reward for defeating large waves of enemies, new flowers will appear in your garden. These fresh blooms provide additional points and help you keep your garden alive longer.

Be strategic with your movements, protect every flower, and see how long you can hold off the invaders in this exciting, high-score challenge!


Controls

Gameplay:

  • Arrow keys: Move your bee
  • A button: Shoot stingers
  • B button: Rotate your bee
  • Start: Pause the game

Menu

  • Arrow keys: Navigate between the options
  • A buttton : Select the option


Authors and Licenses

This game, Pollen Protector, was developed entirely by a team of future multimedia engineers:

  • Developers: Octavio Vicent Lloret, Juan B Hurtado Salazar y Javier Herrero Ponce

Resources and Licenses

  • In-Game Visuals: All in-game sprites, backgrounds, and animations were fully designed and created by our development team.
  • Web Images: Images on this webpage (not used in the game) were generated with OpenAI's DALL-E through ChatGPT, licensed for use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License (non-commercial). Also, we edited using Canva and Remove.bg.
  • Sound Effects and Music: Created using OpenMPT (Open ModPlug Tracker) and adapted from sound files provided by the GitHub repository by AntonioRD. The sounds are used according to the license provided in the repository.
  • Fonts: Font used is sourced from Google Fonts and is free to use without specific licensing requirements.


Updated 14 days ago
Published 22 days ago
StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorCarbonara Studio
GenreShooter
Tags2D, Arcade, Singleplayer

Download

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Pollen Protector.gb 32 kB
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Guía_Manual de usuario Pollen Protector.pdf 310 kB
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PollenProtector.zip 3 MB
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Así se hizo Pollen Protector.pdf 357 kB
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How Pollen Protector Was Made.pdf 363 kB

Install instructions


If you want to try the game and help the poor bee save the flowers in her garden, follow these steps:

  1. On our itch.io page, you’ll find the .gb file available for download. Download it, as this contains the game.
  2. To play it without a Game Boy, you can use various emulators depending on your operating system:
    • For Windows and Linux, the best option is the BGB emulator, which we used during the game’s development.
    • For macOS, we recommend using OpenEmu, which is a user-friendly emulator that supports Game Boy games.
  3. With the emulator and game downloaded, all that’s left is to launch the emulator, load the game, and you’re all set—time to save the garden!

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