Our own product2026BEEing
An idle tycoon game that actually teaches beekeeping.
- Project
- Our own product
- Our role
- Game design · Unity development · Economy systems · Backend
- Duration
- In development
01 / Behind the product
A real need. A considered solution.
Challenge
In most idle tycoon games the theme is a skin; swap the bees for a factory and nothing changes. When the theme is not wired into the loop, after a few days the player is just watching numbers grow. On the technical side the idle genre has its own traps: numbers overflow a double, offline earnings get gamed by moving the clock, and balance cannot be tuned by hand.
Approach
The loop is grounded in real beekeeping: each of 14 bee races carries six traits (yield, hygiene, temperament, cold tolerance, swarming, range); in queen rearing the daughter inherits the parents’ mean plus variance, with a 2% legendary chance and pity at 50. Ten regions, 30 honeys, a honeydew season, 14 threat events and reversed seasons in New Zealand.
The simulation is pure C#: no UnityEngine references, one GameState, changes only through commands, deterministic 15-minute segments and a closed-form step for offline time. Big numbers use BigDouble, time comes through ITimeSource synced with the server; saves are AES-256 + HMAC with clock-rollback detection. Balance values live in ScriptableObjects and can be overridden by remote config; they were calibrated with 60- and 90-day simulations.
Result
On the Supabase side, 7 migrations and 14 Edge Functions: score plausibility checks with a shadow list, server-timed offline earnings, ETag-based A/B remote config, cooperative contracts. 152 EditMode, 123 simulation and 23 cooperative smoke tests; a PolicyBot plays seven days as three personas and checks invariants. Store screenshots in six languages (8 scenes × 6 languages × phone/tablet), trailers and ASO copy are ready. Launch is planned for the winter season.
02 / Inside the product
The experience, on screen.
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03 / Scope & details
The details make the experience.
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A loop grounded in real beekeeping; the simulation is pure C# with no UnityEngine dependency
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Seasons, queen breeding and harvest timing
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10 regions, 14 bee races and a generation-based prestige system
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Store material ready in six languages: screenshots, trailers, ASO copy
Technology
- Engine
- Unity 6000.3.23f1
- Languages
- EN · TR · FR · DE · IT · ES
INSIDE THE PRODUCT
The engineering behind the interface.
Systems we built and concrete problems we addressed in this project.
The simulation is independent of Unity
The BEEing.Simulation asmdef has noEngineReferences: true; game state is one GameState, mutated only through Simulator and ICommand. The same logic can run in EditMode tests and, later, in an Edge Function; deterministic 15-minute segments with a closed-form step for offline time.
Save and clock safety
Saves use AES-256-CBC + HMAC-SHA256 with a PBKDF2 key from the device id and an install nonce; atomic writes with a .bak. ClockGuard detects clock rollback, and the claim_offline Edge Function grants offline earnings by server time.
Balance was tuned by simulation
tools/sim produces 30/60/90-day runs with three personas (free, light spender, whale); hive cost growth of 1.35, region unlock at 20k×5ⁿ and a prestige threshold of 1M×1.5ⁿ were chosen from those runs. The pollen bonus was tied to lifetime pollen earned rather than spent, otherwise buying the permanent tree reduced production.
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