AntWars
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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You control an ant colony. Get food and evolve those ants!
Keys: q, w, e, a, s and d will make 'new' ants stats better, stronger and faster in exchange for food . Space bar will create a new ant for 5 food units.
Use your mouse to select and command those ants!
Conclusion on this project:
I started a bit late (timezones) and didn't get any ideas for the first 12 hours of this jam. so t-36 h and no idea.
Then I came up with the idea of ants fighting from hive to another. Made some concept arts and it turned out to be quite an awesome idea. I started to implement basic functionality and realized that this is going to be too big. After that I tried to simplify this as much as possible, and after that simplification it turned to quite poor game :(, basic idea is still awesome - sidescrolling RTS with dynamic environment - but this can't be done in this time. So the lesson of this story. Plan and reason more before furious coding.
Keys: q, w, e, a, s and d will make 'new' ants stats better, stronger and faster in exchange for food . Space bar will create a new ant for 5 food units.
Use your mouse to select and command those ants!
Conclusion on this project:
I started a bit late (timezones) and didn't get any ideas for the first 12 hours of this jam. so t-36 h and no idea.
Then I came up with the idea of ants fighting from hive to another. Made some concept arts and it turned out to be quite an awesome idea. I started to implement basic functionality and realized that this is going to be too big. After that I tried to simplify this as much as possible, and after that simplification it turned to quite poor game :(, basic idea is still awesome - sidescrolling RTS with dynamic environment - but this can't be done in this time. So the lesson of this story. Plan and reason more before furious coding.