HONEYBEE - THE ART RAVERS DIARIES!

Here is my next wierd and wonderful Production - Honeybee is a game I began work on many years ago, lets take it back to the very beginning to explain how it all came to be...  Honeybee was actually the very first Computer game I ever created! I was still working in the Bakery Industry and we had a week off for Christmas! I was sat in my bedroom and to be honest was bored out of my tits I had been playing games and thought maybe I should have a go at creating a game myself, I had played Bee 52 by Codemasters which is a nice but hard game ( although I personally think the in-game background graphics look wishy washy, Andrew Fisher tells me that the graphics are based on the NES version of the game ) and also playing the HUMBLE BUG demo by Jon Wells - A brilliant but unfinished game which if Im not mistaken is on the GTW 64 Website. Anyway perhaps I was being arrogant but I thought " I am sure I can make a better game than these two games". So out of frustration of not been able to play HUMBLE BUG and thinking I could do better graphics than B52 I began my work... The first thing I knew I needed to do was create a decent Main Player Sprite, after about 15 Minutes I had knocked up what I thought was quite a cool Bee Sprite. I called mymum in and asked her what she thought. "Is it a Submarine?" she enquired. She very kindly offered to lend me a book with Insects, Flowers and all that sort of cool stuff. Within a few minutes I had found an excellent looking Bee with which I quickly created a lovely main Sprite ( although actually the Bee in the book I have copied is NOT actually a HONEYBEE ). I knocked up a three frame animation sequence which I then copied and flipped the other way to create movemant the other direction. Finally I made the Bee face outwards and animated that with three frames too!