Antopia: Battle for the Nest by Anaconda Games

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made by Anaconda Games for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

Antopia: Battle for the Nest is an action-packed strategy game where you lead an army of ants in an epic battle to defend your nest and conquer rival colonies. As the commander of your tiny forces, you must outsmart enemies, defend your territory, and launch strategic assaults to expand your dominion.

Guide your ants through a perilous, larger-than-life world, where every battle tests your tactical skills. Can you outwit rival colonies and secure victory in the world of Antopia? Capture<em>decran</em>2024-10-07<em>234645.png Capture</em>decran<em>2024-10-07</em>234655.png image.png

Here’s a quick explanation of the controls:

Controls:

  • Move your ant commander using the classic WASD keys.
  • You have 5 powerful abilities, mapped to Q, W, E, R, T:
    • E requires you to hold the key to maintain the ability.
    • The other abilities on Q, W, R, T are point-and-click, allowing precise targeting.
  • To cancel any of the point-and-click abilities, simply right-click.

Let me know if you'd like to add or tweak anything!

Ratings

Overall 445th 3.647⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Fun 486th 3.471⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 562th 3.279⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 311th 3.943⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Humor 484th 3.141⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 502th 3.559⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 110🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Dimoseek
07. Oct 2024 · 22:46 UTC
!!!! NICE !!!
AlezJL
08. Oct 2024 · 07:35 UTC
The 3d art is perfect!! Really nice job!
william reppelin
08. Oct 2024 · 07:40 UTC
L'art est incroyable félicitations!!!!!
Patomkin
08. Oct 2024 · 08:53 UTC
Very nice take on the theme! Not sure why there were so many abilities, since the game can be beaten with ant grenades only, but variety is ok, I guess. Loved the art style and cute little ant swarms!
LegacyLight
08. Oct 2024 · 19:25 UTC
great art style. Also the game handled a fairly large ammount of ants just fine
Memz
09. Oct 2024 · 01:50 UTC
Cool game with decent art style. Great job!
Jared Saizdelamora
09. Oct 2024 · 01:50 UTC
Really awesome game, had me very engaged. Great work!
peachee-lychee
09. Oct 2024 · 07:08 UTC
This is really impressive for 72 hours! I think my only gripe is I don't think AZERTY is a good default control scheme, since it overloads the A key you need for movement. Once I switched the controls to QWERTY I had a lot more fun.
Sviborg
09. Oct 2024 · 07:09 UTC
🌟 Great job! The game is simply captivating from the first minutes! 🎮 The exceptional attention to detail, especially in the 3D art, deserves praise - the visual style is simply magnificent! 🐜 The cute ant swarms add charm, and the variety of abilities makes the gameplay exciting. 💥
Oren Hope
09. Oct 2024 · 07:56 UTC
Insane game right here. I love the art, I love the mechanics (even though I didn't understand the T ability). It's pretty funny to throw ants like bombs, it made me laugh.
I also really like the UI, everything seems clear, the cooldowns, the path of the ants in the air, the camera moving to get closer or not. Congrats!
🎤 Anaconda Games
09. Oct 2024 · 09:49 UTC
@oren-hope Thanks a lot, I'm really happy you enjoyed the game! 😄 The T ability lets you interact with preset transparent builds that appear during specific waves. There's a wall during wave 2 and a bridge at wave 3. You can send your ants to these structures to build them and either block enemy paths or create shortcuts. We had plans to add more, but we ran out of time. Really appreciate the feedback and glad you liked throwing ants like bombs! 😂
swaglazio
09. Oct 2024 · 11:31 UTC
Are the models yours ? If so, it's amazing ! check my game too :pray:
PeterLeBagarreur
09. Oct 2024 · 11:33 UTC
Cool little game! It's impressive what you did in so little time. Loved the graphics aspecially! I just didn't use other ability than the throw one (A) cause it was too damn powerful.
mttt322
09. Oct 2024 · 15:05 UTC
Wow, amazing work on the graphics! Great job!
Vittima
09. Oct 2024 · 17:34 UTC
I really like the design. It looks magical!
Nasturra
09. Oct 2024 · 18:09 UTC
Holly Molly! This is insanely good!
Karamelika22
09. Oct 2024 · 21:01 UTC
Quite an interesting idea of the game, I also really liked the design)
stormburpee
10. Oct 2024 · 04:52 UTC
The art in this game was great! I love the low poly style, and the grass grabbed me insanely.

The idea was awesome - and executed well. You crushed it!
Rita Shvets
10. Oct 2024 · 12:24 UTC
I really like your work with 3D! The characters are very beautiful and well-developed, and the overall style suits the theme! I would love to see a full game!
CharlyChive
10. Oct 2024 · 16:42 UTC
Really nice execution of the art style! Lovely music and gameplay mechanics too!
Fenderbate
11. Oct 2024 · 15:02 UTC
The art is really good, but I couldn't figure out how to use the first ability, which I assume is tossing an ant XD

I also wandered off the map in the beginning, and looking at the minimap I as wondering, where am I supposed to go? :sweat_smile:
Overlix
11. Oct 2024 · 16:28 UTC
the visuals, the effects and the ux is really nice. you have a good tutorial at the beginning of the game but you should have pushed it further to better explain the goal of the game
Chlolauro
11. Oct 2024 · 18:44 UTC
This was a fun game and I even replayed once completed to refine my techniques and use some of the strategies that I hadn't utilised so much the first time! I couldn't understand how it worked until I switched the controls to QWERTY but after that it didn't take long to work it out. It might have been nice to have each of the battle tools explained before the game started but other than that I think it was great! I loved the theme, a fun idea, the music was lovely, the environment looked nice and I absolutely love the 3D character, it looks so good!
Joshua_Reumann
11. Oct 2024 · 19:15 UTC
Great job on the art and abilities :)
bacalear
12. Oct 2024 · 10:01 UTC
nice art!
Cliff Coffee
14. Oct 2024 · 21:49 UTC
Good presentation and I liked the variation of abilities. Was not sure what the T ability was really for but kept trying it. Ended up getting locked up where I couldn't cancel my throw and could not use another ability, so I got stuck. But I was able to capture a few ant hills.
Norah
21. Oct 2024 · 13:12 UTC
Really love it :clap: