They Buggin! by Jacobloon
The life of an ant is hard, more so when being invaded every day. They must be BUGGIN if they think we wont fight back.
Defend your anthill, collect fruit, upgrade, and survive
Summon ants using the hot bar with collected resources. Either manually control them my clicking on them or right click them to swap between automatic modes. Over time, enemy ants and ant hills will spawn, attacking fruit, your ants, and your base. To keep up with increasingly difficult enemies, select your base to upgrade your ants, resources, and base itself.
Automatic Ant Modes:
“Right click your ants to cycle between three different behavior modes”
Harvest (Yellow): Prioritizes harvesting fruit and depositing it back in your base.
Conquer (Green): Prioritizes destroying enemy ant hills, then ants.
Bloodlust (Red): Prioritizes killing enemy ants, then ant hills.
Controls
WASD : Move the camera
Shift + WASD : Move the camera faster
Mouse 2 : Right click on an ant to cycle between automatic modes (harvest, conquer, bloodlust)
Scroll Wheel : Zoom in and out
Mouse 1 : Select an ant and select somewhere to send it
Control + Mouse 1 : Select multiple ants at the same time
Alt + Mouse 1 : Command all ants to converge onto the mouse position
1 2 3 : Summon an ant from your hotbar
E : Stomp on a location, squashing all (Be careful where you aim!)
Made With
GameMaker Studio 2
FL Studio
Audacity
Paint.net
| Link | https://jacobloon.itch.io/they-buggin |
| Link | https://gx.games/games/l93yko/they-buggin-/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/they-buggin |
Ratings
| Overall | 736th | 3.36⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 591th | 3.34⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 736th | 3.06⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 441th | 3.8⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 850th | 3.06⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 331th | 3.54⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 550th | 3.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 522th | 3.543⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 49🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
Also, the variation on Ant Go Marching is wicked good. Sounds great!
That being said, I like that ants have base order so I could summon any ant and be sure that they'll defend my base.
Still, it was pretty fun to get better at the game and I was eventually able to kill 23 total spiders. It is fun to command the ants and see them go off and do their thing. I am very glad that the AI modes are there in the game, although I wish there was more indication of what each one did, as well as some sort of defensive mode so that it was possible to keep the base safer.
Unfortunately I always forgot about the boot past a few uses in the beginning. I perhaps could have survived a little longer with it. It is a pretty funny mechanic -- the idea that this one ant colony in particular has a human on their side stomping on all the other bugs.
All in all though a fun game!
Also, the music brought me straight back to this ANTZ scene lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzB110CXYPM
- Zooming should be centered on the middle of the screen
- "Selecting" ants should stick until you select another ant
- Some visual feedback on what ant is selected
- It's hard to have ants deliver food back to base without upgrade menu popping up
- There is no indication that an ant has food to deliver back to base
It's impressive that you managed to make such a fun game-loop. I played it tons of times and had a blast!