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It was a bit difficult to manually send all the harvester ants to multiple packages while panning back to the base to send a fire ant to kill a wasp, then trying to find the harvester ants again afterwards though.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1115312,"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"jezzamon","epoch":1729137927,"text":"I found this game a little too hard. I feel like the sweet spot for Ludum Dare games are games that are fairly easy to get through but where you get a good sense of progression. With the food getting further and further away it felt like my defeat was somewhat inevitable...\n\nThat said, managed to keep those wasps away for a while!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1115343,"author_name":"drinkycode","author_uid":"drinkycode","epoch":1729142450,"text":"Had a nice Pikmin-esque look to everything. 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