I hate ants.

I LOVE THE LIL CUTE ANTS I DONT WANNA KILL THEM 🥺🥺

@zantze I had no choice, it was too good of an idea to skip. Poor ants though 😔

first game i played of the jam and got to a say, was the right one to start

Click click click click ehehe I keep my cake safe (Very nice! Enjoyed my time with it! ♥)

Hi!
Sneaky ants, really cool game, loved the mood and ambient sounds.
My score: 270

Got very confused I like the graphics and from the gif the ants were getting killed
but there aren't any ants at the beginning

I didn't know that I used to hate ants, but after playing your game for a while I feel the same.

BTW: I love cake too xD

Good job ;)

@sixgamesld Did they eventually appear, or did no ants spawn at all? If so, that is most definedly a bug :grimacing:

none

Overall I really liked the game! I is a fun concept. I never saw the cake though. I assume it was just off the screen but maybe it was a lie?

I think a 'bug' exists when you try again. The ants do not start but everything else is normal. I had to reload the page and start a new game each time. Not a big deal, just wanted to report it.

Any reason that you start zoomed in? On the first play, it seems like nothing is happening and then when you zoom out you find out you are behind.

I liked that the early ants are protected by the bushes somewhat. The variety of ants and weapons was good.

Great job making a game in 48 hours!

Really good interpretation of the concept - the variety of ants was great!

@blockerz Thank you for such detailed feedback! Here are some answers:
- Did you pan the camera around with the right mouse button? The cake should be at the top. I did have an issue before where the WebGL version did not show the cake, so could be that the bug is back...
- Thank you for the bug report! I have to take a look at this.
- There is no real reason why the game starts zoomed in, I think that is just the default zoom level of the orographic camera :sweat_smile: . You have a good point though!


@munkkeli I did not try that but I wanted to see the cake so tried again. I think you may be right about a bug in WebGL. It looks strange when I do pan up. At the start if you roll the mouse to max zoom you see an area that I thought was the play space.

@blockerz Ah, I see! There should be some mention about the camera controls on the menu then. Thanks for the follow up :thumbsup:

This is a great game. Now I hate ants, too!

Nice game ! the art is lovely <3
Good work :)

Had to zoom out to find the cake and the ants in the beginning, but otherwise good. It's satisfying to burn them with the hairspray.

Cute graphics and fun gameplay!!

A fun little game! I didn't realize that the map was as large as it was the first time, but I had a better go of it on my second playthrough. Thanks for sharing!

I was confused at first not knowing where the cake is, until I pinched on my trackpad to see the whole map. It was very satisfying squishing on those ants. I wish there was a way to organize the walls and such, so that I could squish those army of bastards in one click! Sooo satisfying :stuck_out_tongue: Great game and congrats!!!

I feel quite bad for smashing all those poor ants instead of just moving the cake somewhere safe :smile:

The game was fun (even if I feel bad for it) and impressive for a compo entry. The ambient sounds were nice and helped the picnic experience a lot.

Got to 750 points before those buggers got the cake. It felt like the game performance slowed down a bit once a lot of ants were scuttling around. Also at some point, some normal ants (not the big ones) ignored the traps I placed. Do they have a maximum number of ants they can catch?

This game is tense! I liked it. Around ~400 score I noticed the game started having problems rendering the corpses so the FPS started tanking, but I managed to hit 880 before losing my cake.

This was really fun to play! I imagine this could be expanded into a full game by adding more types of weapons and ants and maybe some player controlled units. I could play such game for hours :). I loved the humor as well!

It was fun to play. The art style is really nice. I got FPS issue as well once I got close to 350 points. Anyway, good job with the game. I was able to get 423 points.

This is a fun take on the theme, and I enjoyed playing the game. The various tools were well designed and fun to use, although it was unclear what would unlock the traps. I liked the variety of ants as well, they resulted in an interesting prioritization challenge in the beginning and a frantic clicking to kill the big ones by the end. The ants looked great and I liked that they did not, in the beginning at least, just move directly to the cake, they had a bit of a wander going on. Overall a great game, well done!

Great game. It's well polished and I liked the ambient sound effects. It was a little tricky to play on my laptop with a trackpad, especially to pan, but it was still enjoyable for the most part :)

Overall a brutal, but also a fun little game. Well done.

@jeffrey-hwang Thank you for playing, and for your kind words! :slight_smile: I expected the camera controls to be an issue on a trackpad, but unfortunately ran out of time to implement an edge scrolling or some other movement mechanic. I am glad you still managed to enjoy it though!

@heremeus Thanks so much for playing! An hmm, the traps should not have a maximum catch limit, but it might be possible for the ants to sneak past the edges. If they went straight trough however, then that is definitely a bug! :sweat_smile: Thanks for letting me know!

@pio Thanks so much for the feedback! :smile: I am glad you enjoyed it! I would like to make a full fledged base defence style game at one point, as those were my favourite back in the flash game days! :slight_smile:

@smilewood Thanks so much for the detailed feedback! I had plans to add loading indicators to all the weapons, but ran out of time before getting there. The traps simply unlock at certain score counts for now. I am also very glad you noticed the ants behaviour at the beginning! :smile: They do indeed hang around in small groups to make crushing them easier when you are just starting out!

@adamk33n3r Thanks for playing! Glad you managed to enjoy it even with some camera movement issues. :slight_smile: Will definitely try to focus more on the camera next time!

@heremeus @frib @zimny11 Thanks for letting me know about the performance issues! It is the A* pathfinding that starts to slow down when there are multiple ants roaming around. I ran out of time before optimizing it, so I had to make a choice between less ants, or some lag. I chose the lag. Hopefully it was the right choice! :sweat_smile: