Manage your Anthill colony. Dig galleries and find food to harvest. Caution of starvation!
HOW TO PLAY:
You need to assign some "Architect" if you want ant to dig. Click on the dirt to assign dig task. You can also drag with the mouse. You need to assign some "Harvester" if you want ant to (automatically) harvest.
The assignment can be done via keyboard hotkeys: "I", "K" for the Architect, "O", "L" for the Harvester. See the "Menu" for further information.
Kudos, credits and inspiration: - The awesome game "Banished" - @mrspeaker for giving me the idea to inspire from the music "Koyaanisqatsi"
Conclusion: This weekend was for me an awesome and unprecedented moment: this is the first time I do LD while being a father and this LD gamedev was fun! About the game, my initial goal was much much more ambitious than this entry version, but I'm quite ok with this version that I try to polish and bugfix. I may try to continue the development depending if you liked it or not. Anyway, I had a lot of fun making my first simulation game.
You can checkout my timelapse compressing 47 hours into 9 minutes!
I love this entry - ended up playing it for a really long time. It took me a while to figure out what was going on (at first I was just clicking around randomly) but once I got it it's addictive. Well done!
Nice game and great idea for the theme. On my first playthrough all my ants but I did better the second time. Though at one point I stopped getting new ants. Is it because my queen died? Is there anyway to reverse this situation? It gets very repetitive after that.
I enjoyed this. It is well made, although it has some inherent flaws.
First, I think that jobs should be assigned on proximity. Too often I had ants walking from the other end of the map to dig a hole when I had a perfectly good architect standing next to it.
Second, ants that die while on the job are not replaced by other ants. So tunnels that were being dug when an ant dies are in a perpetual state of waiting to be dug.
Third, I almost reached starvation once. I started losing a bunch of ants, but once most of them were dead, there was enough food for everyone and I pulled through with a dozen ants remaining. However, once food was plentiful again, new ants were never born. So I remained with my dozen ants from day 20 to day 100 with > 1000 food.
I love this concept and the way you've executed it. I played a lot of SimAnt when I was a kid, and would like to see this continued.
Miltage: Thanks for the feedback, yeah actually there is already a "proximity" search but between tasks, not ants... (a ant search the closest job). there is something I missed in my "find job" algorithm: basically I'm doing "foreach ant, find the closest job" where I kinda should do "foreach job, find the closest ant", or even maybe try to mix the 2 approaches.
Really like the AI pathfinding etc in this one - for an LD entry it's sophisticated! Crashed on Day 83 with a "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property '93' of undefined", but I had 3000 food at that point so I think I had played enough of it.
I think the UI needs a bit of work (clicks/hovers not always registering, simple black text of assignment stats etc.) and I'd have liked to have seen more roles, but there's definitely a solid game mechanic there!
Would like to see something like enemies that your guys must fight (through assigning to "warrior" type) and perhaps some sort of "sustainability" role that somehow increases the availability of food in the lategame.
Cool entry. I like the simple and effective mechanics. Unfortunately, the game wouldn't load, I had to execute game.state.start('Game') manually There was no JS error, and all assets were loaded, I don't know why this happened.
Apart from this issue, nice game, quite addictive !
Simple game, good little ants! I included it in part 25 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/06U_lc3kLp4
I liked the atmosphere music, and the game was quite addicting! I found it a little too short though, more goals for the player would have been great. But anyway, really nice game, I dig it! ... :>
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First, I think that jobs should be assigned on proximity. Too often I had ants walking from the other end of the map to dig a hole when I had a perfectly good architect standing next to it.
Second, ants that die while on the job are not replaced by other ants. So tunnels that were being dug when an ant dies are in a perpetual state of waiting to be dug.
Third, I almost reached starvation once. I started losing a bunch of ants, but once most of them were dead, there was enough food for everyone and I pulled through with a dozen ants remaining. However, once food was plentiful again, new ants were never born. So I remained with my dozen ants from day 20 to day 100 with > 1000 food.
I love this concept and the way you've executed it. I played a lot of SimAnt when I was a kid, and would like to see this continued.
Otherwise did you affected some Architect?
I think the UI needs a bit of work (clicks/hovers not always registering, simple black text of assignment stats etc.) and I'd have liked to have seen more roles, but there's definitely a solid game mechanic there!
Would like to see something like enemies that your guys must fight (through assigning to "warrior" type) and perhaps some sort of "sustainability" role that somehow increases the availability of food in the lategame.
Regardless, it's a very fun game as is!
FYI: The food/ant/days display was still using the Phaser Debug which is very laggy comparing to a Phaser.Text.
Unfortunately, the game wouldn't load, I had to execute game.state.start('Game') manually
There was no JS error, and all assets were loaded, I don't know why this happened.
Apart from this issue, nice game, quite addictive !
But anyway, really nice game, I dig it! ... :>