[Submitting for the Jam]

This is my first ever submission to Ludum Dare. Wooohoooo!!!!

I decided to use Unity because I've been wanting to learn it for a long time. I spent the last month familiarizing myself with it and getting some initial things setup. Boy I had no idea how much things change when you actually go to build a game with some of the tools you create.

I've had the idea for Hymenoptera rolling around in my head for a long time and I figured Ludum Dare would be a great way to get started on it. While I want to continue working on this past Ludum Dare, I think i've gotten off to a great start and i hope you all enjoy!

I will admit i didn't get as far as i thought i would get, and I had to rush alot of UI and interactions bits because it took me much longer to get the system up and running the way i wanted. So its not so much of a game as it has been a learning experience for me.

Gameplay

You are controlling an ant colony in an ant simulator, each ant has needs and can be told to collect certain resources. The catch (to stick with the theme) is that the larger your ant colony grows the more unwieldy it becomes to manage and the resources costs for each, building, upgrade, technology costs a % more based on how many resources you have above the base cost. There are a number of other hidden mechanics that also play into that same theme with regards to each ant needing to consume resources or collect them.

There are 4 resource types: * Sugar: The main source of ant food * Water: Everyone needs water too! * Protein: This helps you upgrade worker ants into soliders * Fungus: Mostly used for technology or mutation upgrades, but also used to create Alates (breeding ants)

The World map is made up of a series of colony, waypoint and resource nodes strung together in a path that ants will travel automatically to and from.