Ludum Dare #45compo

Ant Wars RTS

by dragonsbeardgames

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.36

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Start with nothing but a nest. Build gatherers and warriors and conquer the ant world. RTS game

You can not move your workers, they automatically will mine. Control the warriors by placing beacons with right click

Controls:

WASD to move the camera

Left Click on a nest to create a gatherer

Right Click on a nest to create a warrior

Left click anywhere to create a nest

Right click anywhere to create an attack waypoint (Right click waypoint to delete)

ALT- F4 to close the game (Forgot to add quit button)

Bug Fixes

Removed "E" key giving infinite food.. forgot that was left in....

Spawning Queen doesn't put you in negative food

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WEB BUILD - Make sure to maximize it, wasn't designed to scale gui

Comments26

Stefanie Leitch6 Oct 2019, 22:35

Awesome job! My mind is kinda blown that you managed to essentially build an RTS in 48 hours. Brought me back to my time playing SimAnt -- wish there was more!

DragonsBeardGamesauthor6 Oct 2019, 23:01

@stefanie-leitch Thank you so much, Sim ant was the inspiration behind it!

lizelive6 Oct 2019, 23:30

this is my favorite so far :)

Piturnah6 Oct 2019, 23:43

This is super fun! It wasn't super intuitive, but once I figured it out I had a great time. Will definitely revisit another day.

himegized6 Oct 2019, 23:52

Never thought I needed large scale ant battles before in my life, way to prove me wrong.

NachtWitch7 Oct 2019, 01:25

Really cool concept

Pavel Ivanov7 Oct 2019, 03:32

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

diaonic7 Oct 2019, 03:37

My super ants are taking over the world... one waypoint at a time. Great job, had some fun with this one.

tic7 Oct 2019, 11:31

I looked at the code and saw that it was done with unity, is it possible to have a web version hosted on itch.io or equivalent ? This looks awesome and I really want to test it but I won't have access to a Windows PC most of the time I will be testing games :s

Griz7 Oct 2019, 11:34

You could make a multiplayer .io game out of this :).

DragonsBeardGamesauthor7 Oct 2019, 12:11

@tic I have added a web build, Make sure to maximize it as I did not scale the gui to fit a small screen. Hopefully it doesn't have performance issues on the web version.

TwinTurboDouche7 Oct 2019, 12:44

A multiplayer version of this game would be awesome! Super ants FTW!

WashingMachinae7 Oct 2019, 12:50

I spent way more time on this than I thought I would. One note though, with a large map after a while the game starts choking out because of the amount of ants in the world

Baturinsky7 Oct 2019, 13:20

Needs some indication of new base scheduled to built. I thought my click did nothing and lciked again, and got two bases at the same place.

DragonsBeardGamesauthor7 Oct 2019, 13:23

@baturinsky I had a line drawing from the nest to where the queen was going. But I used Debug.Drawline so when I built the game debug lines don't show. Woops

Odeyalko7 Oct 2019, 13:23

Cool game, it was difficult at first, and then also difficult, always difficult.

sansman017 Oct 2019, 17:29

I peacefully built my colony and suddenly I get crushed by a swarm of ants. I love it :)

DragonsBeardGamesauthor7 Oct 2019, 18:36

@sansman01 @odeyalko Glad you guys enjoyed it. It does seem to either crush you or be too easy, Hard to get a fine balance. But the difficulty slider should help in either direction

7 Oct 2019, 18:56

Really cool concept! Hope you do more updates!

Martin Waters8 Oct 2019, 10:25

I love it!)

Fupi8 Oct 2019, 18:12

This is amazing! I had never played an RTS before, and this game's mechanics are so easy to understand that even I played for a long while. The AI is really impressive for the time period you were given. Have nothing to complain about, I'm so glad I found this game!

DragonsBeardGamesauthor9 Oct 2019, 19:03

@fupi @martin-waters Thanks for the support!!! It really encourages me to keep trying to make games :)

Jesús González9 Oct 2019, 23:14

I made a similar, but significantly worse in terms of gameplay, game for another jam https://rootstudio.itch.io/hive-mind. I really like RTS with macro focused controls, almost 5/5 from me, it was just missing some sound and a way to know if you're under attack, but I perfectly understand how hard is to make an RTS for a jam. Great job.

kuro10 Oct 2019, 10:51

Nice to have a RTS I can actually win. Great job! The best game for me fun-wise so far!

TORT6009111 Oct 2019, 16:47

I like it because rts logic is most hard game genre and you make it pretty well, it's good hard work in 48 hours!
And I thank you for html5 version, cause test windows builds on mac is really uncomfortable ))

Ryu13 Oct 2019, 15:59

@dragonsbeardgames Cool game! Really enjoyed playing it :). The controls are a bit unintuitive, but was a blast once I got used to it

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