Players are in control of a single ant confined in a two-dimentional enclosure. The entire game is gridlocked and runs on "beats", starting at four beats per second. Players start with 480 beats of life, approximately two minutes, and can increase their life by consuming sugar blocks. Life drains faster after each consumption. Every once in a while a sugar block will fall from the top of the enclosure.
Players can pick up and place blocks to construct pathways, rooms and to create structures. What can you make before the game is over?
Controls: Left/Right - Move ant anticlockwise/clockwise around the enclosure. Down - Pick up and place blocks in the direction the ant is facing. Up - Consume a held sugar block. Space - Switch to the other side of a one block wide gap.
Screenshots: GridANT has an inbuilt screenshot function activated by the F12 key or by ctrl+shift+3. A screenshot is also take automatically when the game is over. These screenshots can be found at a location like: Windows - %appdata%\LOVE\GridANT OS X - /Users/user/Library/Application Support/LOVE/GridANT
A note to Linux users: I'm sorry, I cannot package GridANT for you as I have insufficient knowledge of, and access to, Linux operating systems. I have made the .love package is available for you should you know what to do with it.
I loved the idea but I couldn't get much out of it, unfortunately. I thought it was innovative but the controls weren't quite intuitive enough, and it seemed like it was possible to get yourself into an unwinnable state (by filling in the top-level holes and consuming the sugar). I might be wrong.
nice work though. Looked quite nice and novel idea!
http://www.loveteit.fr/img/screen.png Achievement unlocked: reaching the bottom; make a heart out of dirt; die because of a hardly-reachable sugar block. Achievement unlocked: reaching stone; replay upon death ^^' I really enjoyed it by the way :D
This reminded me of my second in game day of minecraft. The first day I was like "lovely, I will explore this vast world." That night I was surprised to find zombies. The next day was a frantic race against time.
I loved that the ant gradually speeds up, so that game-play mimics my own attitude as I become more and more pressed for time. I made a small gravity defying, minimalist statue hoping to alert my captor of my vastly superior intellect.
nice work though. Looked quite nice and novel idea!