Hungry Ants by Dew
This is a Survival Game! In the tiny world of Ants.
There is a instruction button "?" whith all you need to know, if you are struck feel free to post i will reply!
In order to get more ants move the eggs that queens spawn(a pointer will appear when u move your mouse) to an egg room, after 30 sec a worker ant or a larva will spawn. Larvas need to be places in a Larva room in order to hatch!
Get in, build your Nest and figth exterior creatures, you have a 7 minutes free of enemies, get a little army before madness starts!
Only Work in Google Chrome and Firefox!! (It won't work in IE!!)
Save / Load Game NOT WORKING (Will fix later i prefered it to work :P)
There is a instruction button "?" whith all you need to know, if you are struck feel free to post i will reply!
In order to get more ants move the eggs that queens spawn(a pointer will appear when u move your mouse) to an egg room, after 30 sec a worker ant or a larva will spawn. Larvas need to be places in a Larva room in order to hatch!
Get in, build your Nest and figth exterior creatures, you have a 7 minutes free of enemies, get a little army before madness starts!
Only Work in Google Chrome and Firefox!! (It won't work in IE!!)
Save / Load Game NOT WORKING (Will fix later i prefered it to work :P)
| Windows | http://82.165.140.195/ld/ |
| Web | http://82.165.140.195/ld/ |
| Source | http://82.165.140.195/ld/ld23.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=11118 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 2.91 | 462 |
| Audio | 1.24 | 750 |
| Fun | 2.36 | 674 |
| Graphics | 3.43 | 200 |
| Humor | 1.81 | 645 |
| Innovation | 3.10 | 355 |
| Mood | 2.30 | 664 |
| Theme | 3.47 | 202 |
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@KevinWorkman Only tested on chrome ^^U
One bug I noticed was that if during a game you go to the menu and then click on New Game, it will not reset all things. E.g. there will be lots of enemies, you statistics are not reset and there can be larvae in the ground.
Thanks for the game!
@artefon I'm happy to hear that I would prefer to offer a much better product but 48 hours aren't that much hahaha
When I attempted to restart after learning the mechanics I got this bug ;-) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7030527/Capture.PNG
What I liked the most:
-the intro;
-the liberty to express myself while building my ant colony;
-the underground art;
I missed a background music :(! The major flaw in this game, in my opinion is the HUD that was a bit confusing but the overall experience was very welcome.
Good job =D.
Sry about the music T_T
I need to improve the HUD i'll work on that!
Thx for playing!
Showing food ammount on screen without forcing me to open stats would be nice. UI isn't exactly great but the biggest problem is that it's pretty slow :( waiting seven minutes with not much to do but occassionally move egg or larva isn't my idea of fun.
I also like how it matches the theme really well.
and.. the youtube video when you close the game ahah! really funny :D
@NAMKCOR i know... this was my 1潞 time I will go hardcore next ld.
@sampyxis thx for watching the code all build from scratch without using libraries :P
@Nocturne yep anoying bug.. i have to add the delete tunnel option :P
I did manage to crash the game, semi-accidentally. When placing tunnels you can actually click on very edges of the right or bottom of the screen and it will place a tunnel outside the visible playing field (though you'll see the inner sprite change to suggest it goes on). When an ant walks in that outside world area the game freezes with a "Cannot read property 'build' of undefined" error. Actually, having the mouse outside the playing field with any object selected through errors constant in the console, these just happen to be silent errors and don't crash the game.
Anyways, it was really fun and an awesome idea with pretty great art! Nicely done! :)
Played this for over an hour, trying out different strategies, 2 queens, more egg rooms, more storage, etc. and I think either the enemies are too strong or the soldiers are too weak because one termite will sometimes kill 3 soldiers without problem. Maybe the enemies could despawn after a few minutes to let you get back on your feet?
Other than this, excellent job, I really got into this game.