Last week I pushed out Goodbye Hexes and enjoyed a weekend of relatively free time. Unfortunately, that free time only let the bee madness fester - I was happy with the concept of navigating by sun direction or by landmark, but I was still not satisfied with the idea of unit steps. I went back to basics and read a few articles about how honeybee scouts actually explore their environment, and this paper in particular helped me to articulate the friction I was feeling. The frustration I'd identified was that there was not really a distance scale that squared the flying speed of a honeybee against the idea of bumbling a mile at a time in an hour. I spent a day or two chewing on this friction with a few friends and one asked me to articulate what this granular time tracking was doing for the game. This question helped me to zoom out from this step-by-step procedure and brought me to what I tested today at my kitchen table. I'll give a quick primer on my thought process and then provide a…
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