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Jumping · Not the Bees 🐝 🐦

A single-file tap-to-flap side-scroller. The flyer's round body is a looping Nicolas Cage "NOT THE BEES!" clip, and the obstacle corridor is now a stack of straw beehive columns (honey-amber with horizontal hive bands) — with a tiny cartoon bee hovering at the mouth of each lower hive. Tap to stay airborne and squeeze through the gaps.

Built as a single self-contained HTML file: the embedded clip is the Not-the-Bees clip (VP9 + Opus, 240×240), the saguaro-cactus obstacles were recoloured and redrawn as banded beehives (the pink saguaro bloom became a little bee), and the title became Jumping · Not the Bees 🐝.

How to Play

1. Tap GAME START.
2. Tap the play area (or Space / ↑) to flap — each flap snaps the body up and replays the clip; gravity pulls it down.
3. Aim for the gap between each pair of hives — +1 per pass.
4. Hitting a hive or the ground ends the game; clipping the ceiling just halts upward velocity.
5. Tap Play Again, or 🏠 Home to return to the start.

Notes

• The hive columns keep the exact hitbox of the old cacti (same width and gap), so difficulty is unchanged — only the art is bee-themed.
• The clip's own audio is the flap sound, routed full-range around the lowpass master.
• Built from the Not-the-Bees clip in notbees_clip.webm.