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For <div class="note"> it might be nice to do something a bit more clever than the current system.

It would be cool if the notes/instructions were responsive so that they could float off to the side on windows with enough horizontal real estate and then be collapsed into the vertical flow for narrow display.

When the player bee does their dance, surrounding bees should not just be launched because they are in the path, but instead because they are within a radius ("watching").

notes:

• not every bee in the radius needs to be launched, but they could as a start
  • special bonus if bees are launched by actually looking at (aka angled toward) the player
• maybe there should be a [very] small delay before launch?

Sometimes (maybe caused by clicks or collisions) the player bee goes out of control and rapidly waggles off screen never to be seen again.

The images are probably too big; we should scale them down.

I love how the little sister bees have a slight jitter as they walk around, but our player bee does not. Can we make the jitter slight enough that even the main bee can have it on their return trips?

idea:

• add jitter to main bee
• reduce jitter slightly overall

We discussed how to cite sources, and I think @ncase had a suggestion to try

We should figure out how people want to be credited/linked/etc.

"She does so by adjusting two aspects of her dancing: the rate of dance circuit production (R, in dance circuits per second) and the duration of dance circuit production (D, in seconds)"

We should maybe decide whether/how we want to show the speed/vigor as a variable.

We need to create a way to display both the internal bee's dance and the destinations that the sister bees are being guided to.

This could be a split screen or maybe some kind of creative view combination.

Bees that are launched should fly with the animated wing graphics we have

I think @daiyi was cool with not using the flexport format. If so, I can change the CSS to respond to media queries which will hopefully be more mobile-friendly.

There are some other changes like fixing the padding around the playable space and some other spacing stuff that could be worked out.

It would be great if this Explorable was accessible to folks using a mobile device

• touch functionality?
• scaling for screens (media queries?)

If we make a thing that gets people excited about bees, it might be cool to add something that encourages people to donate to bee-related causes.

This is for the guidance of the sister bees to a specific destination in the outside world.

Ideally, this mechanic would include some kind of "targeting" so that the user bee's dance is mapped to the outside world visually.