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Antsy for Food! by fractalsunrise

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made by fractalsunrise for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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The ants are hungry! Guide the scout ant through the mazes to find the food.

Click the green flag in the top left corner to start. Move with the arrow keys; you can go faster if you hold them down. After you finish a maze, press SPACE to go to the next one or watch the hungry ants bring the food back to their anthill.

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For this project we used Scratch, Paint.NET, and Audacity. We also made a level editor in Matlab that exported maze images and level strings which were easy to get into our Scratch project.

We hope you enjoy our relaxing maze game!

Link https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1078124770/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/antsy-for-food

Ratings

Overall 757th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 816th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 939th 2.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 192th 4.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 822th 3.132⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 464th 3.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 450th 3.194⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 436th 3.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

George K
07. Oct 2024 · 23:48 UTC
Very well done! Great SFX!
rufenerd
07. Oct 2024 · 23:59 UTC
Good execution on a classic idea!
Vipaka
08. Oct 2024 · 00:02 UTC
This is a cute idea. The sound effects were especially charming, and I enjoyed watching the ants swarm after reaching the food.
deadroach
08. Oct 2024 · 06:14 UTC
This takes me back, my first ever games were made on scratch years and years ago. Love the ants following the path after you find food like real ants would, it adds a ton of character and the noises the ants make are fun.
MrMaico
08. Oct 2024 · 07:14 UTC
A-maze-ing! (pun very much intended)
I think I have never seen Scratch for a Game Jam entry! Amazing. I have used Scratch years ago for my very first coding / game dev project and it was really nice. Never expected to see a LD entry with it. Good job.

Simple mechanic with cute SFX and many levels. I believe I stopped after 5 mazes as it did get a bit repetetive. I did enjoy watching the ants swarm out but would have loved even more ants.
Quintec
08. Oct 2024 · 07:15 UTC
Nice clean game! Sounds feel a little unbalanced but overall cool.
cituchi
08. Oct 2024 · 07:16 UTC
very nice game, simple passage, but I think that’s even a plus
Human Writes Code
08. Oct 2024 · 08:06 UTC
Nice work! I particularly love the little game design elements you added like the ant whistling for their friends when they finally get to the end and the way that they all come running through the maze after them. Overall, a well made little game.
Sviborg
08. Oct 2024 · 08:20 UTC
Very cute and funny game! 🐜 The sound effects give it extra charm, especially liked how the ants start calling their friends after they find food. Simple but addictive gameplay with many levels. It was nice to watch the ants running through the maze, adds a special character to them. Great job!
PlasmaPuffs
09. Oct 2024 · 00:00 UTC
![Screenshot 2024-10-08 at 4.59.00 PM 1.png](///raw/810/26/z/6821b.png)

That was a lot of levels! I would suggest adding some more variety to make it more interesting, but still good job!
minibobbo
10. Oct 2024 · 03:31 UTC
The first time I called the ants and they followed my trail to the food I smiled because that's what I would have expected the ants to do. Maybe without the whistle :)

Nice entry, and your development toolset is very unique :) I'm not sure I've heard of MatLab being used as a gamedev tool but it certainly works!
CrimOudin
11. Oct 2024 · 02:28 UTC
I played a bunch of mazes and just assumed it went on forever lol. Nice to see someone beat it.
Daniel Finch
14. Oct 2024 · 10:42 UTC
Well done on a cute simple idea, would have been nice to have music that makes the player wanna continue and engaging sound design though!
Prismapunch
14. Oct 2024 · 19:12 UTC
Love a good maze puzzle, cute and one of the first scratch games I've seen on here, good job!
Urfoex
14. Oct 2024 · 19:37 UTC
Happy ants are eating and bringing food home.
So nice to see 👍
Yippi! Yippi! Wohoooo! 😄