{"author_link":"\/author\/gre\/","author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","comments":[{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:10am","epoch":1398654300,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:39am","epoch":1398674040,"text":"Very addicting. Nice job allowing the user to click and drag to make a trail, usually games seem to forget how helpful that is. Great Job! :)"},{"author_name":"snooze82","author_uid":"12061","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:35am","epoch":1398677400,"text":"took a while to get it  - i like the little dead ants :D"},{"author_name":"CareForceOne","author_uid":"36545","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1398706500,"text":"This game is great! Very addicting."},{"author_name":"yetanother","author_uid":"14706","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1398719820,"text":"Cool music, nice to play."},{"author_name":"lonewookie","author_uid":"34535","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:39am","epoch":1398738840,"text":"Very well made.  I love the idea of managing a colony of ants!"},{"author_name":"jeffz","author_uid":"4842","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:47am","epoch":1398764520,"text":"excellent fun, especially the music!"},{"author_name":"Jared Sartin","author_uid":"32837","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1398774660,"text":"SimAnt! Nice work! Can't wait to see more."},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1398774720,"text":"Really nice game :)"},{"author_name":"pancakecity","author_uid":"28537","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:05pm","epoch":1398780000,"text":"Fun game, it has good atmosphere!"},{"author_name":"NoNoBattle","author_uid":"30260","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:50am","epoch":1398818700,"text":"Really awesome idea and gameplay!"},{"author_name":"BadgerPriest","author_uid":"3353","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1398885240,"text":"Ahh, I didn't know you could drag to make tunnels the first time. Maybe make that more clear? It makes a huge difference."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1398893100,"text":"I've just released an important bugfixes pass, the release note is in the commit: https:\/\/github.com\/gre\/ld29\/commit\/0492fb186e1dc40083ee0cdb1ad95eb2dcca4042"},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1398893460,"text":"BadgerPriest: Thanks for the feedback, I've updated the description here"},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 7:09am","epoch":1398927840,"text":"Great sim! One of the better sim of this Ludum Dare."},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:04am","epoch":1398938340,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Miltage","author_uid":"8745","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:32am","epoch":1398940020,"text":"I enjoyed this. It is well made, although it has some inherent flaws. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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 &gt; 1000 food.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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."},{"author_name":"jotson","author_uid":"20128","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1398953100,"text":"Really good. With some polish you could take this to a full game."},{"author_name":"Danvil","author_uid":"5851","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 3:49pm","epoch":1398959040,"text":"Game is very buggy :("},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1398967620,"text":"Danvil: what do you mean? What are the bugs? I released bugfixes yersterday."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:16pm","epoch":1398967860,"text":"Miltage: Thanks for the feedback, yeah actually there is already a &quot;proximity&quot; search but between tasks, not ants... (a ant search the closest job). there is something I missed in my &quot;find job&quot; algorithm: basically I'm doing &quot;foreach ant, find the closest job&quot; where I kinda should do &quot;foreach job, find the closest ant&quot;, or even maybe try to mix the 2 approaches."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1398967980,"text":"(and there are limit per job, so the &quot;older&quot; ant lock the job..)"},{"author_name":"anissen","author_uid":"30512","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1398970200,"text":"Has a bit of a Dungeon Keeper vibe to it. Nice :)"},{"author_name":"CeriseGhost","author_uid":"37024","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 9:33am","epoch":1399195680,"text":"I really enjoyed this game! It took me a while to understand how to get them to dig but once I figured that out I was fine! :)"},{"author_name":"copain","author_uid":"35128","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 9:45am","epoch":1399196400,"text":"nice idea. a good start for a real game..."},{"author_name":"CMaster","author_uid":"10609","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 12:58pm","epoch":1399207980,"text":"Clicking on the dirt does nothing for me (Firefox 28)"},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1399208460,"text":"I was a huge fan of sim ant back in the day. Not much in the way of challenge though. Maybe add some conflict."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 1:32pm","epoch":1399210020,"text":"CMaster: does it put any &quot;clock&quot; on it? if not, do you even have some hover feedback on the dirt?\r<br\/>Otherwise did you affected some Architect?"},{"author_name":"XenosNS","author_uid":"28415","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1399212300,"text":"Enjoyed this, very well executed"},{"author_name":"Hippolyta","author_uid":"32967","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 2:20pm","epoch":1399212900,"text":"Very nice game - good job!"},{"author_name":"dector","author_uid":"9598","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1399220280,"text":"Love the soundtrack. Very nice entry. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Toby Pinder","author_uid":"4783","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 12:56am","epoch":1399251060,"text":"Really like the AI pathfinding etc in this one - for an LD entry it's sophisticated! Crashed on Day 83 with a &quot;Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property '93' of undefined&quot;, but I had 3000 food at that point so I think I had played enough of it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Would like to see something like enemies that your guys must fight (through assigning to &quot;warrior&quot; type) and perhaps some sort of &quot;sustainability&quot; role that somehow increases the availability of food in the lategame.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Regardless, it's a very fun game as is!"},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 6:27am","epoch":1399270920,"text":"Great job on this game! I really liked it! A fun little concept which worked really well, reminds me a bit of &quot;banished&quot;."},{"author_name":"Agecaf","author_uid":"35738","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 11:26am","epoch":1399288860,"text":"Very fun and addicting game. It's crazy how sometimes you get tons of food, and sometimes food supplies begin to lower drastically."},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1399293660,"text":"Nice ant sim. Very addicting."},{"author_name":"InvisibleWonder","author_uid":"28398","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1399303920,"text":"I couldn't dig for the life of me.  No dirt tiles would light up when I clicked on them."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1399319820,"text":"Sorry about this bug, it should be fixed now (Firefox)"},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1399324620,"text":"Good game. I would like to see it developed further. Well done."},{"author_name":"JimmyBoh","author_uid":"34636","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1399325760,"text":"Really takes me back to the days of SimAnt! Great work! More specializations and optimized task setting would make this truly spectacular!"},{"author_name":"CMaster","author_uid":"10609","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1399326300,"text":"No clocks, no hover behaviour. Works on my pyher machine with firefox though..."},{"author_name":"rojo","author_uid":"29998","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 4:18am","epoch":1399349580,"text":"Nice base for a larger game.  Seemed to run a little laggy in Firefox for me, so maybe there could be some optimizations there."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1399394700,"text":"It should now run smoother on Firefox, thanks for the feedback!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>FYI: The food\/ant\/days display was still using the Phaser Debug which is very laggy comparing to a Phaser.Text."},{"author_name":"Caridorc","author_uid":"32741","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1399402680,"text":"Very good game, in many games the start is too hard and you die soon but in this i had time to learn how to play."},{"author_name":"Cawrtz","author_uid":"29641","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1399472460,"text":"Cool entry. I like the simple and effective mechanics.\r<br\/>Unfortunately, the game wouldn't load, I had to execute game.state.start('Game') manually\r<br\/>There was no JS error, and all assets were loaded, I don't know why this happened.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Apart from this issue, nice game, quite addictive !"},{"author_name":"paps","author_uid":"27849","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1399663980,"text":"Nice game"},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1399844100,"text":"Good fun, kinda meditative."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 1:55am","epoch":1399859400,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 11:54am","epoch":1399981740,"text":"I always loved games about ants and ant societies! Very nice smooth colors also. Wish there were more challenges though."},{"author_name":"lucidlarva","author_uid":"25504","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1399993920,"text":"I spent way too much time playing d: very good."},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 7:12pm","epoch":1400008020,"text":"Reminded me a lot of SimAnts, but I think this is built better. :)"},{"author_name":"crocantidepollo","author_uid":"36237","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1400019660,"text":"Good work! It's strangely mesmerizing"},{"author_name":"Raiyumi","author_uid":"25829","time":"May 15, 2014 @ 5:40am","epoch":1400132100,"text":"Argh.. those dead ants! It's a nice game."},{"author_name":"Nanolotl","author_uid":"4470","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1400329560,"text":"Great idea and fun to play. Music was nice too."},{"author_name":"BMacIntosh","author_uid":"15030","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1400350140,"text":"I got the crash error, too: &quot;Uncaught TypeError: cannot set property '59' of undefined (game.js:32)&quot; (Day 65 Ants 165)"},{"author_name":"end3r","author_uid":"19938","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 1:47pm","epoch":1400420520,"text":"Addicting, enjoying and can be played for some time without getting bored - congrats!"},{"author_name":"Xaychru04","author_uid":"16472","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1400528400,"text":"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.\r<br\/>But anyway, really nice game, I dig it! ... :&gt;"}],"images":["ld29\/18803-4f0ea6ce8f055484d59f3e97ec1245d1.jpg","ld29\/18803-aff0a1c681ab7db696ea7b52a0255e26.jpg","ld29\/18803-8b59cd0c23f304e73f11b9ccc4944e35.jpg","ld29\/18803-e77e1a929c8a88abc03a171661ee7da1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/greweb.me\/ld29\/","text":"Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/gre\/ld29","text":"Github"},{"url":"http:\/\/greweb.me\/2014\/05\/ld29\/","text":"Blog Post"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19521","g_author":"18803","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19550","g_title":"Anthill","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"278","g_commentcount":"56","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/18803-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/18803-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/18803-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/18803-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Manage your Anthill colony. Dig galleries and find food to harvest. Caution of starvation!    \r\n\r\nHOW TO PLAY:    \r\n\r\nYou 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.  \r\nYou need to assign some \"Harvester\" if you want ant to (automatically) harvest.    \r\n\r\nThe assignment can be done via keyboard hotkeys: \"I\", \"K\" for the Architect, \"O\", \"L\" for the Harvester.     \r\nSee the \"Menu\" for further information.    \r\n\r\nLibraries & Software:  \r\n- HTML5 & Phaser.io   \r\n- GIMP   \r\n- SunVox   \r\n- VIM        \r\n\r\nKudos, credits and inspiration:    \r\n- The awesome game \"Banished\"    \r\n- @mrspeaker for giving me the idea to inspire from the music \"Koyaanisqatsi\"        \r\n\r\nConclusion:    \r\nThis 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!    \r\nAbout 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.      \r\n\r\nYou can checkout my timelapse compressing 47 hours into 9 minutes!","title":"Anthill"}