MiniLD #69compo
Ant Colony
This is my first Ludum Dare and first attempt at game development. I am using python 3.5 and the pygame library. My game is not currently finished, and pretty buggy. If I can finish it before the deadline I will, and if I don't I will make a full release after the event is over.
This game is about ants. The end goal is that the player draws pheromone paths with the cursor to food or power ups and back to the ant hill. The ants will randomly pick a path to follow, pick up some food, and bring it back. After all the food from one spot has been removed, the path leading to it will quickly disintegrate. There is also a tron aspect to the game, as you cannot draw one path over another, it acts as a wall until it disintegrates.
Currently, my game has limited functionality. There is one type of food that there are always five of on the screen. You can draw a path over to the food using the arrow keys. It will turn blue when you go over a piece of food, letting you know you have a valid path. When you move the cursor back to the ant hill, the path will stop drawing and you can spawn ants with the "x" key. This part of the game is very buggy right now.
All of the programming and art is created by me. I made this game in the few days before the competition ended. I'm not exactly up to what you are allowed to update your game, the post says it ends August 1st, but it's due the 2nd(?).
Right now, I've only compiled it for Linux.
I also have the source code if you want to look at it or run on something besides Linux. You must have python3 and pygame installed to run the script. Depending on your OS you may have to edit the image path variables at the top of the script.
TL;DR: Ant game, arrow keys to draw path to food and back to ant hill, "x" key to spawn ants(up to 5 before game crash.) Download zip file and move to Desktop. Unzip > Ants > dist > Ants and run the Ants program. Currently very buggy so expect lots of crashes.
PS: Working title. It's 3 AM.
UPDATE: Windows download now available. Game is not completely finished and still pretty buggy. Source link will also be updated, however I cannot update Linux at the moment.
Windows instructions: Unzip build.zip, open exe.win... folder, run Ants.exe
This game is about ants. The end goal is that the player draws pheromone paths with the cursor to food or power ups and back to the ant hill. The ants will randomly pick a path to follow, pick up some food, and bring it back. After all the food from one spot has been removed, the path leading to it will quickly disintegrate. There is also a tron aspect to the game, as you cannot draw one path over another, it acts as a wall until it disintegrates.
Currently, my game has limited functionality. There is one type of food that there are always five of on the screen. You can draw a path over to the food using the arrow keys. It will turn blue when you go over a piece of food, letting you know you have a valid path. When you move the cursor back to the ant hill, the path will stop drawing and you can spawn ants with the "x" key. This part of the game is very buggy right now.
All of the programming and art is created by me. I made this game in the few days before the competition ended. I'm not exactly up to what you are allowed to update your game, the post says it ends August 1st, but it's due the 2nd(?).
Right now, I've only compiled it for Linux.
I also have the source code if you want to look at it or run on something besides Linux. You must have python3 and pygame installed to run the script. Depending on your OS you may have to edit the image path variables at the top of the script.
TL;DR: Ant game, arrow keys to draw path to food and back to ant hill, "x" key to spawn ants(up to 5 before game crash.) Download zip file and move to Desktop. Unzip > Ants > dist > Ants and run the Ants program. Currently very buggy so expect lots of crashes.
PS: Working title. It's 3 AM.
UPDATE: Windows download now available. Game is not completely finished and still pretty buggy. Source link will also be updated, however I cannot update Linux at the moment.
Windows instructions: Unzip build.zip, open exe.win... folder, run Ants.exe
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