This game is my most elegantly designed game as it has extremely simple mechanics but still manages a good difficulty curve with players being challenged at first and then going on to beating it after a few tries. I believe that the design's success is primarily due to the independent move timers, and required multi-move strategies.

Our combat system was extraordinarily simple, but we did not have the time to design, implement, and create assets for more mechanics, so we had to find another way to make the combat more interesting. We did this by making it so that instead of focusing on strategy, the player would instead be focused on quick decision making and multi-tasking though making bees able to move 5 seconds after being moved. This meant that any time the player wasted in not commanding a bee was time that the enemy spent moving towards its objective, thus forcing the player to quickly decide where to move their bees. And since each bee's movement timer was independent that meant that the player had to multi task and quickly switch their focus between their units.

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Despite this, the combat would have still been too easy had the player not needed to chain moves together in order to counter the enemies. This was achieved though increasing the map size so that the player would have to push an enemy multiple times without letting up to get the enemy off the map.