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Loved the art style and cute little ant swarms!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093998,"author_name":"LegacyLight","author_uid":"legacylight","epoch":1728415555,"text":"great art style. Also the game handled a fairly large ammount of ants just fine","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1096272,"author_name":"Memz","author_uid":"memz","epoch":1728438627,"text":"Cool game with decent art style.  Great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1096273,"author_name":"Jared Saizdelamora","author_uid":"jared-saizdelamora","epoch":1728438640,"text":"Really awesome game, had me very engaged. Great work!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1097403,"author_name":"peachee-lychee","author_uid":"peachee-lychee","epoch":1728457731,"text":"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.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1097408,"author_name":"Sviborg","author_uid":"sviborg","epoch":1728457776,"text":"\ud83c\udf1f Great job! The game is simply captivating from the first minutes! \ud83c\udfae The exceptional attention to detail, especially in the 3D art, deserves praise - the visual style is simply magnificent! \ud83d\udc1c The cute ant swarms add charm, and the variety of abilities makes the gameplay exciting. \ud83d\udca5","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1097620,"author_name":"Oren Hope","author_uid":"oren-hope","epoch":1728460587,"text":"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.\nI 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!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1098141,"author_name":"Anaconda Games","author_uid":"anaconda-games","epoch":1728467355,"text":"@oren-hope Thanks a lot, I'm really happy you enjoyed the game! \ud83d\ude04 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! \ud83d\ude02","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1098612,"author_name":"swaglazio","author_uid":"swaglazio","epoch":1728473502,"text":"Are the models yours ? If so, it's amazing ! check my game too :pray: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1098621,"author_name":"PeterLeBagarreur","author_uid":"peterlebagarreur","epoch":1728473630,"text":"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.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1099610,"author_name":"mttt322","author_uid":"mttt322","epoch":1728486334,"text":"Wow, amazing work on the graphics! Great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1100303,"author_name":"Vittima","author_uid":"vittima","epoch":1728495261,"text":"I really like the design. It looks magical!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1100475,"author_name":"Nasturra","author_uid":"nasturra","epoch":1728497363,"text":"Holly Molly! This is insanely good!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1101365,"author_name":"Karamelika22","author_uid":"karamelika22","epoch":1728507706,"text":"Quite an interesting idea of the game, I also really liked the design)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1102790,"author_name":"stormburpee","author_uid":"stormburpee","epoch":1728535969,"text":"The art in this game was great! I love the low poly style, and the grass grabbed me insanely. \n\nThe idea was awesome - and executed well. You crushed it!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103818,"author_name":"Rita Shvets","author_uid":"rita-shvets","epoch":1728563047,"text":"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!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1104425,"author_name":"CharlyChive","author_uid":"charlychive","epoch":1728578567,"text":"Really nice execution of the art style! Lovely music and gameplay mechanics too! 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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!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1107797,"author_name":"Joshua_Reumann","author_uid":"joshua-reumann","epoch":1728674151,"text":"Great job on the art and abilities :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1108974,"author_name":"bacalear","author_uid":"bacalear","epoch":1728727317,"text":"nice art!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1113261,"author_name":"Cliff Coffee","author_uid":"cliff-coffee","epoch":1728942598,"text":"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. 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