Stupid Ants by rvmook
Ants are stupid, they just walk around randomly. Help them collect food by marking a path. Food means more ants, more ants > more food > more ants... You get what I'm saying.
Try to gather 200 ants before the time runs out !
- ants pickup food (berries and sugar)
- if they bring it back to a heap, more ants will come
- create bounding boxes to keep them in a certain area
- use your boxes wisely, sometimes it's better to just let them run arround
-- UPDATE --
Thanks for the comments so far, here's a quick apology on why the game is so short.
I tried to implement different levels so you could get the hang of how the boxes would react and what the better tactics were. But unfortunately I ran out of time leaving the game without levels but with a few bugs. Those bugs are:
- once the food recource is gone all remaining recources (if the ants are still carrying them) won't spawn any new ants.
- when you deselect a tile the collision detection fails horribly and warps ants at the border to an adjacent tile.
For those who are interested, I'll try to upload a fixed and an enhanced version somewhere this weekend.
-- THANKS FOR PLAYING --
Try to gather 200 ants before the time runs out !
- ants pickup food (berries and sugar)
- if they bring it back to a heap, more ants will come
- create bounding boxes to keep them in a certain area
- use your boxes wisely, sometimes it's better to just let them run arround
-- UPDATE --
Thanks for the comments so far, here's a quick apology on why the game is so short.
I tried to implement different levels so you could get the hang of how the boxes would react and what the better tactics were. But unfortunately I ran out of time leaving the game without levels but with a few bugs. Those bugs are:
- once the food recource is gone all remaining recources (if the ants are still carrying them) won't spawn any new ants.
- when you deselect a tile the collision detection fails horribly and warps ants at the border to an adjacent tile.
For those who are interested, I'll try to upload a fixed and an enhanced version somewhere this weekend.
-- THANKS FOR PLAYING --
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 2.89 | 477 |
| Audio | 2.65 | 357 |
| Fun | 2.44 | 633 |
| Graphics | 2.78 | 492 |
| Humor | 2.31 | 381 |
| Innovation | 3.28 | 271 |
| Mood | 2.59 | 499 |
| Theme | 3.13 | 384 |
Maybe this needs longer levels?
If I try and keep them in the boxes, I lose. If I just move all the boxes out of the way, I win easily. I'm not sure what the mechanic is here.
I like the music though. Very Dig-Dug.
I really like the concept and the graphics are nice too.
Good game for now. I look forward to play the fixed and enhanced version :)
However, more control would make it great :-)
maybe if there was some mode without a time-limit to get you started it would be a bit easier.
Won just by turning off all the boxes.
I dont't totally understand how the bounding boxes mechanics work, sometimes I make grow the ant population over one hundred (180 my best) and others I only got 40.
I like the graphics and the music remembers me old school music 80s arcade so I love it :)
COngratulations.