Lay out hives and flowers on a grid and let pollination efficiency emerge entirely from where you put things, geometry is the whole game.
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How to play
Spend your starting money to place hives and flowers on the field over a fixed number of rounds. Bees only reach flowers inside their hive's ring, and each hive splits a finite capacity across every flower it touches. End each round to bank the honey as money, then reinvest toward a cumulative output target.
Crowd flowers under one hive and each gets a smaller share; spread them across overlapping rings to feed each from several hives.
Wildflower tiles boost a flower's yield, while barren tiles block placement entirely.
Hit the cumulative-output target before the rounds run out for a score bonus.
Controls
Desktop: pick the flower or hive tool, then click a grid cell to place it; moving the mouse previews a hive's reach ring. Click End Round to advance.
Phone & tablet: tap the tool, then tap a cell to place, placement works by touch (the live reach-ring preview is shown on mouse hover).
Game modes
Daily: a shared seeded terrain layout each day for a fair score comparison.
Practice: new layouts on demand, with Easy, Normal and Hard cost and target presets.
Tips & strategy
Position hives so their rings overlap, then drop flowers in the overlap zones to draw capacity from two hives at once.
Don't over-plant under a single hive, past its capacity, extra flowers just starve each other.
Hunt for wildflower tiles early; a boosted flower fed by multiple hives is your best honey-per-dollar.
Origins
Pollination is the real service being modelled, and the placement problem is a real one too: the facility location problem asks where to site facilities so that they best serve a set of demand points.
The original design is that output is pure geometry. Bees reach only flowers inside their hive's ring, and each hive splits a finite capacity across every flower it touches.
That finite capacity is what makes it a puzzle rather than a layout exercise. Overlapping rings do not add — a flower served by a crowded hive gets less — so the optimum is a spacing problem, and cramming more in makes the field worse.
About Pollination Inc
Pollination Inc is an original spatial-optimisation simulation where output is computed purely from the geometry of your placements rather than luck. It is a free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
